William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) and Harry Hook’s The Forgotten Island (1990): A Dialogic Study
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Date
2022
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Université Mouloud Mammeri
Abstract
The present work studies William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies (1954) and Harry Hook’s movie The Forgotten Island (1990) from a dialogic perspective. Our study falls into two main chapters. In the first chapter, we made an appeal to Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of Parody to show the oppositional views of the themes discussed in the novel as well as its adaptation, namely; Evilness, Civilization versus Savagery and Loss of Innocence. The second chapter is about the analysis of the key elements of chronotope in both works. We focus on the temporal and spatial indicators that are presented. This developed examination highlights the main points where the two works intersect and which work is regarded as a response to the other. We come to the conclusion that these respective works are dialogic in terms of themes, as well as the representation of time and space
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64 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. (+CD-Rom)
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Bakhtin, Dialogism, Parody, Utopia, Dystopia, Romanticism, Realism
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General and Comparative Literature