6/20/2023 0 Comments Waterland novelThe significance of all this, needless to say, is that it brings into question the very idea of the end of history. As Tom himself remarks, Price has contrived to "disrupt disruption" (51), to end the end of the end of history. Indeed, no sooner has Tom's own posthistorical narrative begun than it in turn is interrupted by the pupil Price who declares that "'the only important thing about history. In short, the 1789 end of history does itself come to an end. Tom, then, is already relating the end of history when, in a chapter entitled "About the End of History," he suddenly departs from the grand and objective narrative of the Revolution to narrate the small and subjective narratives of his own life. It first ends with the French Revolution which, as Tom Crick informs his pupils, in rejecting the past and tradition thereby rejected history itself. The most obvious lesson of Waterland is that the "Grand Narrative" of history ends more than once, or rather is always already ended. 1 As the study progresses I shall be interested in developing the broad politico-theological implications of my reading. This is a reading of Waterland as an allegorical exploration of postmodern theories of the end of history, treating those theories as the novel's intertexts, or subtexts. In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. The end of the end of history:Swift's Waterland.įull text not available from this repository.
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