Authors :
Hassan Rouhvand
Volume/Issue :
Volume 9 - 2024, Issue 1 - January
Google Scholar :
http://tinyurl.com/mrymemv7
Scribd :
http://tinyurl.com/5fbmwn2v
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10623017
Abstract :
Does parody merely twist the high accounts
into a commonplace? In this paper, the label of parody is
equally set to give thought to the curvature of time plane
in Doctorow's Ragtime and to question the presentation of
realities in the archival records, with the signification of
rethinking the augmented facts in history. This study
examines the aperiodic and intertextual consciousness of
the novel through parodic vision of history to show how
the slanted readings of facts reinforce temporality of
glorified acts and tarnish the roles of its celebrated actors,
tuned in the notes of popular culture in Doctorow’s
fiction. In our relational analysis, it is discussed that the
resonance of history through the pitches of literature is a
re-filing of gaps with the shades of cultural concepts, in a
means, to dampen the high frequency of language in
mega-narratives. In fine, it is stated that fiction could
serve as a medium for deterritorialization of ‘truth’, both
glossing the historical arguments and debilitating their
communicative force.
Keywords :
Doctorow, Ragtime, Parody, Reiteration, Hyperbole, Carnivalesque, Bricolage.
Does parody merely twist the high accounts
into a commonplace? In this paper, the label of parody is
equally set to give thought to the curvature of time plane
in Doctorow's Ragtime and to question the presentation of
realities in the archival records, with the signification of
rethinking the augmented facts in history. This study
examines the aperiodic and intertextual consciousness of
the novel through parodic vision of history to show how
the slanted readings of facts reinforce temporality of
glorified acts and tarnish the roles of its celebrated actors,
tuned in the notes of popular culture in Doctorow’s
fiction. In our relational analysis, it is discussed that the
resonance of history through the pitches of literature is a
re-filing of gaps with the shades of cultural concepts, in a
means, to dampen the high frequency of language in
mega-narratives. In fine, it is stated that fiction could
serve as a medium for deterritorialization of ‘truth’, both
glossing the historical arguments and debilitating their
communicative force.
Keywords :
Doctorow, Ragtime, Parody, Reiteration, Hyperbole, Carnivalesque, Bricolage.
