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Believability on the axes of structuralism: Yan Martel‘s Life of Pi

Elaborating on parallel, substitutional and correlated elements of the narrative in Yan Martel’s Life of Pi, this study aims at examining Martel’s technique for presenting a believable story in his novel. To discuss the way the believability of Pi’s narrative gets solidified, this enquiry takes ad...

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Main Authors: Habibi, Seyed Javad, Karbalaei, Sara Soleimani
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Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014
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spelling my-ukm.journal.77452016-12-14T06:45:03Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7745/ Believability on the axes of structuralism: Yan Martel‘s Life of Pi Habibi, Seyed Javad Karbalaei, Sara Soleimani Elaborating on parallel, substitutional and correlated elements of the narrative in Yan Martel’s Life of Pi, this study aims at examining Martel’s technique for presenting a believable story in his novel. To discuss the way the believability of Pi’s narrative gets solidified, this enquiry takes advantage of the organizing principles of structuralism, namely, the metonymical-syntagmatic and the metaphorical-paradigmatic axes. Attributing the various correlating elements of the novel to these axes shows that what actually makes Pi a reliable narrator and simultaneously his narrative believable are the very parallel structures of the novel. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7745/1/6215-18852-1-PB.pdf Habibi, Seyed Javad and Karbalaei, Sara Soleimani (2014) Believability on the axes of structuralism: Yan Martel‘s Life of Pi. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 20 (3). pp. 147-160. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/index
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description Elaborating on parallel, substitutional and correlated elements of the narrative in Yan Martel’s Life of Pi, this study aims at examining Martel’s technique for presenting a believable story in his novel. To discuss the way the believability of Pi’s narrative gets solidified, this enquiry takes advantage of the organizing principles of structuralism, namely, the metonymical-syntagmatic and the metaphorical-paradigmatic axes. Attributing the various correlating elements of the novel to these axes shows that what actually makes Pi a reliable narrator and simultaneously his narrative believable are the very parallel structures of the novel.
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author Habibi, Seyed Javad
Karbalaei, Sara Soleimani
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Karbalaei, Sara Soleimani
Believability on the axes of structuralism: Yan Martel‘s Life of Pi
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Karbalaei, Sara Soleimani
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title Believability on the axes of structuralism: Yan Martel‘s Life of Pi
title_short Believability on the axes of structuralism: Yan Martel‘s Life of Pi
title_full Believability on the axes of structuralism: Yan Martel‘s Life of Pi
title_fullStr Believability on the axes of structuralism: Yan Martel‘s Life of Pi
title_full_unstemmed Believability on the axes of structuralism: Yan Martel‘s Life of Pi
title_sort believability on the axes of structuralism: yan martel‘s life of pi
publisher Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
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