Irony and (Dis)Obedience to Authority in  Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time

Deniz KIRPIKLI

doi:https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.848941

Makale detayları

Irony and (Dis)Obedience to Authority in Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time

Yazarlar:

Deniz KIRPIKLI

Yayıncı:

Cankaya University

Ana Başlıklar:

Literary history & criticism | Edebiyat

Dergi:

Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2020 Vol.14 Issue 2, pp.263-276

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2020

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000902321

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

1309-6761

pISSN:

1309-6761

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.848941

Özet:

 

Julian Barnes’s novel, The Noise of Time, a biographical fiction about the Russian composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, focuses on the most critical periods of the composer’s career, during which he goes through the ordeal of being forced to conform to the ideology of the Soviet regime. Drawing on the composer’s biography, Barnes provides the reader with a fictionalized view of how the composer survives the oppression by the use of irony, which is a much debated issue about his artistic persona. Power measures Shostakovich’s integrity and pushes him to repudiate his artistic stance. The novel especially focuses on conveying the inner conflict of the composer and depicts him feeling shame because of his submission to Power. Under the threat of the authority, he holds on to irony which helps him overcome his fear and shame by implying his dissidence. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of irony in the relationship between art and power by discussing the compromises Shostakovich is forced to make. Also, by focusing on the inner struggle of the composer, this paper will investigate how the novel presents the ways through which the protagonist copes with the challenges in his life.

Makale detayları

Irony and (Dis)Obedience to Authority in Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time

Yazarlar: Deniz KIRPIKLI

Yayıncı: Cankaya University

Ana Başlıklar: Literary history & criticism | Edebiyat

Dergi: Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2020 Vol.14 Issue 2, pp.263-276

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2020

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000902321

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 1309-6761

pISSN: 1309-6761

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.848941

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Deniz KIRPIKLI

Yayıncı:

Cankaya University

Ana Başlıklar:

Literary history & criticism | Edebiyat

Dergi:

Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2020 Vol.14 Issue 2, pp.263-276

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2020

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000902321

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

1309-6761

pISSN:

1309-6761

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.848941