METALEPTIC LOVE IN THE ENGLISH-CANADIAN POSTMODERN NOVEL
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- 1. Suceava University, Romania
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Love has been a staple and chameleonic trope in literature that inspired poets and novelists alike since times immemorial, becoming one of the most pervasive themes in literary texts over the centuries. The traditional understanding of the concept ranged from abstract to more scientific and it has been theorized in fields of study as diverse as philosophy, theology, and psychology. In literature, love mostly appears intertwined with romantic and erotic feelings, but postmodern fiction expands its semantic field by experimenting with a new typology, namely metaleptic love. In Canadian literature, one twentieth-century novel that illustrates a specific form of metaleptic love by using intertextuality is Timothy Findley’s Headhunter (1993). This paper argues that intertextuality is not just a marker of the postmodernist strategies embraced by Findley in his masterpiece, but it also functions as a symbol of metaleptic love and implicitly becomes a marker of ontological plurality.
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