The Deconstruction of Metanarrative of Traditional Detective Fiction in Martin Amis's Night Train: A Postmodern Reading

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dc.contributor.authorGunes, Ali
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-29T16:10:14Z
dc.date.available2024-09-29T16:10:14Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.departmentKarabük Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines this view of unreliable or little narrative or incredulity toward metanarrative in Martin Amis's novel Night Train as an anti-detective novel. In so doing, the paper falls into two parts. The first part focuses upon the convention of traditional reliable or metanarrative in a typical traditional detective story, in which Mike Hoolihan as a detective investigates Jennifer Faulkner's suicide by collecting all the possible evidences and then examining them in a chronological linear way to solve her enigmatic death: who has killed her? Why was she murdered? If it is suicide, why has she ended her life? However, the paper also discusses that the way Mike passionately attempts to solve Jennifer's mysterious death is not possible due not only to lack of evidences but also to the fact that there occurs various interpretations about her death, including Mike's her one, which, after a while, turns into a psychological evaluation of the case with her own emotional involvement. Hence Jennifer's death remains a mystery from the beginning to the end in the novel. This situation obviously defies the expectation of her father Tom as in the traditional sense because why Tom hires Mike as an exceptional interrogator with an outstanding paperwork in the past is to clarify the case and then appease his anxiety, as well as the mystery of his daughter's death. Through his representation of Mike in such a condition, Amis apparently illuminates that it is almost impossible to create a detective story with a final legitimate total meaning and resolution as in a typical traditional detective novel in an age based on fragmentation, uncertainty, doubt, interruption, lack of authority, and self-expression.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.7596/taksad.v7i2.1228
dc.identifier.endpage229en_US
dc.identifier.issn2147-0626
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage216en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.7596/taksad.v7i2.1228
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14619/8038
dc.identifier.volume7en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000437776700022en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKarabuk Univen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTarih Kültür Ve Sanat Araştırmaları Dergisi-Journal of History Culture and Art Researchen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectMetanarrativeen_US
dc.subjectDetective storyen_US
dc.subjectLittle narrative and anti-detective storyen_US
dc.titleThe Deconstruction of Metanarrative of Traditional Detective Fiction in Martin Amis's Night Train: A Postmodern Readingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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