INTERTEXTUALITY IN ENGLISH POSTMODERNISTIC NOVEL OF THE LATE 20TH CENTURY AND NEOVICTORIAN LITERATURE (BASED ON THE NOVELS BY A.S. BAYET AND D. LODGE)
Keywords:
intertextuality, English postmodernist novel, neo-Victorian fiction, A. S. Byatt, D. Lodge, stylisation, pseudo-quotation, hypertextuality, metafiction, academic novel.Abstract
The article examines intertextuality as a structural principle of English fiction of the last third of the twentieth century, with particular attention to the neo-Victorian novel. The purpose of the study is to identify and classify the types of intertextual links in the prose of A. S. Byatt and D. Lodge and to establish their functional load. The material comprises the novels "Possession", "Small World" and "Nice Work", from which intertextual inclusions were extracted by continuous sampling; the analysis draws on the transtextual typology of G. Genette and the classification of N. A. Fateeva. Four productive types were identified: stylisation and pseudo-quotation, generic hypertextuality, allusion and attributed quotation, and metatextual parody of academic discourse. It is shown that Byatt's intertextual gesture is directed inwards, towards the reconstructed Victorian source, and operates in a serious modality, whereas Lodge's is directed outwards, towards the present, and serves satirical ends. The findings qualify the widespread assumption that neo-Victorian poetics is internally homogeneous.
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