6/20/2023 0 Comments The white hotel dm thomas summary![]() ![]() ![]() To be a scientific or to be an imaginative narrative could mean not so much the different level of quality, credibility and reality as that of form or structure of the 'imaginary' narrative. In a postmodern sense, we cannot insist exclusively on the superiority between scientific and imaginative narratives they are just different literary genres - different forms of same 'imaginary order'. While he emphases on the imaginative power of literary narratives, Doctorow is against a discriminating hierarchy between scientific and imaginative narrative.įalse documents have an equal significance to 'imaginary ' narratives. However they have enough capability of revealing intuitive and creative truth better than any scientific and official documents do: 'false documents more valid, more real, more truthful than the "true" documents of the politicians or the journalists or psychologists'. Doctorow argues that literary narratives, including novels, poetry and drama, are kinds of false document. ![]() In a rigid scientific view, literary works or any artistic works are special types of false document, which would not help us discover so-called 'truth'. Thomas's The White Hotel as a kind of 'imaginary false document'. Thomas's The White Hotel - a Postmodern View: Creative and Critical Power of Imaginary Narrative ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |