TITLE:
Trout Fishing in America as a Postmodern Parody
AUTHORS:
Aycan Gökçek
KEYWORDS:
Postmodern Literature, Parody, Consumerism, Deconstruction of Realistic Novel, Inconsistency
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.9,
September
16,
2021
ABSTRACT: This
study aims to analyse Richard Brautigan’s novel Trout Fishing in America as a parody of realistic novel writing convention with an eye on the
qualities of postmodern literature. With this study, the qualities of
postmodern literature and criticism of postmodern consumer society will be
scrutinized. This paper also discloses different ways of postmodern technique
of parody. Initially, general qualities of modernism and postmodernism will be pointed
out and then Trout Fishing in America will be
handled as a postmodern parody. How Brautigan
deconstructs realistic novel writing with the use of postmodern tools is examined. The author’s criticism of
consumerism of postmodern society is also studied. In the end, it has
been concluded that Richard Brautigan manages to achieve his purpose to react
against society out of order through literature by using the exceptional
technique of parody and absurd.