Julian Barnes' Novel “The Man in the Red Coat” in the Context of Intermediation

Nina Dovgalenko

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Julian Barnes' Novel “The Man in the Red Coat” in the Context of Intermediation

Nina Dovgalenko

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 11, Issue 2)

Received: 2 January 2023 Accepted: 14 March 2023 Published: 24 March 2023

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In the proposed article, the analysis of the novel by J. Barnes serves as a tool for raising the question of the prospects for the development of intermediality in the study of the relationship between verbal and musical literary texts. In the novel, manifestations of intertextuality are clearly expressed in the form of a genre synthesis of a novel and an essay, dialogicity, a significant saturation of the text with facts and events of contextual historical origin, isomorphism in the construction of the novel and the object of its reflection - the belle époque-style. Intermediality can be considered as a special case of intertextuality, since the main object of consideration within its limits are manifestations of the recoding of semantic and structural elements of the text into a system of consistent patterns and lexical units of a different kind of artistic expression. A broader understanding of intermediality can serve as a starting point for the formation of a concept aimed at exploring general patterns in the production of meanings in the art text. In this perspective, intermediality goes beyond the understanding of the facts of the transformations of different art forms in line with the general trend towards synthesis. The ontological foundations of artistic thinking manifest themselves in the desire to create heterogeneous artistic forms in the process of synthesizing elements of different types of art. In Barnes's “The Man in the Red Coat” the intermedial properties are reflected in the structure and dramaturgy of the work. Fragmentariness of the text, paradoxicality as a method of its organisation, polyphony in the unfolding of various plot lines can serve as grounds for parallels between the structures of literary and musical works. The development of intermediality as a promising direction in contemporary art history will enable the development of a methodology for the analysis of artistic texts, based on general ontological patterns.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 11, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20231102.13
Page(s)	72-78
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J. Barnes “The Man in the Red Coat”, Intermediality, Belle-Epoch Style, Modernist Reconstruction

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Nina Dovgalenko

Department of the Music History and Musical Ethnography of the Odessa National, A. V. Nezhdanova Academy of Music, Ukraine, Odessa

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