caa a22 4500 378884344 CHVBK 20180305123439.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200407 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/zaa.2004.52.3.272 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zaa.2004.52.3.272 Reinfandt Christoph ‘Putting Things up against Each Other': Media History and Modernization in Adam Thorpe's Ulverton [Elektronische Daten] [Christoph Reinfandt] This article examines Adam Thorpe's novel Ulverton (1992) as a prime example of what literature can achieve from its increasingly marginalized position in an unfolding media culture. It traces in detail how the novel combines a thematic focus on the history of the fictional village of Ulverton from the 17th century to the present with a formal staging of unfolding conditions of mediality which are in turn utilized as a medium of narrative progression. The novel's self-reflexive engagement with the interrelation between media history and modernization is based on a flexible post-modernist poetics of "putting things up against each other” which establishes the genre of fiction as a kind of ‘meta-medium' for storing and communicating information as well as for processing cultural relativity. © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik De Gruyter 52/3(2004-07), 272-285 52:3<272 2004 52 zaa https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2004.52.3.272 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2004.52.3.272 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Reinfandt Christoph NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik De Gruyter 52/3(2004-07), 272-285 52:3<272 2004 52 zaa CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter