Believability on the Axes of Structuralism: Yan Martel‘s Life of Pi  

Oleh:

Habibi, Seyed Javad ; Karbalaei, Sara Soleimani

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature (The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies) vol. 20 no. 3 (2014), page 147-160.
Topik: structuralism; metonymical-syntagmatic axis; metaphorical-paradigmatic axis; believability
Fulltext: Believability on the Axes.pdf (303.23KB)

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Elaborating on parallel, substitutional and correlated elements of the narrative in Yan Martel’s Life of Pi, this study aims at examining Martel’s technique for presenting a believable story in his novel. To discuss the way the believability of Pi’s narrative gets solidified, this enquiry takes advantage of the organizing principles of structuralism, namely, the metonymical-syntagmatic and the metaphorical-paradigmatic axes. Attributing the various correlating elements of the novel to these axes shows that what actually makes Pi a reliable narrator and simultaneously his narrative believable are the very parallel structures of the novel.

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