CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN METAFICTION AND ITS ADAPTATION ON FILM

Lozanovska, Hristina (author), Krevel, Mojca (mentor)

This thesis discusses metafiction and adaptation as two distinct and relatively new phenomena. The theoretical part of the thesis analyses metafiction as the first, and adaptation as the second tenet of this thesis; both theoretical parts outline the essence, as well as the most important elements of metafiction and adaptation which will then serve as the bases for the analytical part of the thesis. The analytical part deals with four contemporary American metafictional novels (The World According to Garp, Fight Club, The Hours, and Everything Is Illuminated) and the film adaptations that were produced based on these novels. Each pair, a novel and its film adaptation, are is analysed in terms of the metafictional elements that are present in them, the amount of the metafictional elements from the source text retained in the adaptation, and how these elements are rendered on the big screen. Based on the practical analyses of the four most prominent metafictional novels that have been adapted for film in contemporary American literary history, the thesis aims to establish whether and how the metafictional novel can be successfully adapted on film.

• Language: English
• Keywords: metafiction, adaptation, contemporary, American novel, film, metafictional elements
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Year: 2022
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-135927
• COBISS.SI-ID: 104069635
• Publication date in RUL: 01.04.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: SODOBNA AMERIŠKA METAFIKCIJA IN NJENA ADAPTACIJA NA FILMU

Abstract

Magistrsko delo obravnava metafikcijo in adaptacijo kot dva različna in relativno nova fenomena. Teoretični del magistrske naloge obravnava metafikcijo kot prvi in adaptacijo kot drugi poudarek te naloge. Oba teoretična dela opisujeta bistvo in najpomembnejše elemente metafikcije in adaptacije, kar bo v nadaljevanju služilo kot podlaga za analitični del magistrske naloge. Analitični del naloge obravnava štiri sodobne ameriške metafikcijske romane (Garpov svet, Klub golih pesti, Ure do večnosti, Vse je razsvetljeno) in njihove filmske adaptacije. Vsak roman in film analiziramo z vidika metafikcijskih elementov, ki so prisotni, števila metafikcijskih elementov iz izvornega besedila, ki so obdržani v adaptaciji, in načina upodabljanja teh elementov na velikem platnu. Na podlagi praktičnih analiz štirih najpomembnejših metafikcijskih romanov, ki so bili v sodobni ameriški literarni zgodovini prilagojeni za film, je cilj magistrske naloge ugotoviti, ali in kako se lahko metafikcijski roman uspešno prilagodi filmu.

• Keywords: metafikcija, adaptacija, Ameriški roman, film, metafikcijski elementi