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Publicēts: 12.04.2005.
Valoda: Angļu
Līmenis: Augstskolas
Literatūras saraksts: Nav
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It is always interesting to follow various processes and phenomena in literature, philosophy, society and thinking, plurality being one of such. Everybody is looking at the same thing differently, every author writes about things from his point-of-view basing on his or her own experience, but, what is characteristic for postmodernism, author’s experience admits existence of different opinions simultaneously leading to attempts to reflect all those possible opinions. Another point, it is sometimes hard to find the author’s own attitude towards the issue. Let us take, for example, “The Briar Rose” written by Robert Coover. His deconstructed fairy-tale admits a great variety of the possible princes, seeping beauties, fairies, castles, wives, etc., etc. There is nothing left of the original fairy-tale, and one might wander, if any representative of foreign culture, who has heard nothing of the classical “Briar Rose”, would understand what the talk is about. The same might be said on the great number of ‘Holy Graile’ versions traveling around Western literature just like knights have been traveling for it around Europe, if to believe medieval tales. …

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