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Spark's Symposium: a postmodernist critique.
Abstract
Muriel Spark's Symposium (1990) focuses on the problems of perception of truth about persons by creating multiple layers of meaning. Narrative voices, time and incidents are juxtaposed by Spark to create simultaneity of perception of different fragmentary episodes in the novel. In teaching this novel the unconventional plot-structure and characterization should be examined to study the change in the idea and function of character and plot in postmodernist novels.
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