William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1603) Revisited through John Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius (2000) and Ian McEwen’s Nutshell (2016): An Intertextual Dialogic and Cultural Materialist Study
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2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
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This research, studies John Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius (2000) and Ian McEwen’s
Nutshell (2016) in relation to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1603) from in intertextual dialogic
and cultural materialist approach. This study, as a matter of fact, aims to discuss and investigate
the two works of John Updike and Ian McEwen, and their connection to William Shakespeare’s
Hamlet relying on different theories which might help us in our quest to identify the nature of this
link and conceptualise the scope of our study, Among them figures Intertextual dialogism of
Mikhail Bakhtin, more precisely overt polemic and stylization. Other theoretical concepts include
Cultural Materialist developed by Raymond Williams which is organised as such: residual,
dominant, and emergent. After analysing the two novels in the light of William Shakespeare’s
tragedy Hamlet Prince of Denmark, and by using the above mentioned theories, we came to the
conclusion that both works are intertexts of William Shakespeare’s source text. Both writers
reflect the issues of their societies in the different eras using texts that are rich in meaning made
possible by the use of plot, themes, characters and Shakespearian language.
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62p. ; 30cm.(+CD-Rom)
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Littérature et civilisation