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Item Narrative Intertextuality and Self-Reflexivity in Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake(Department of English, 2018) Paudel, AmardeepThis thesis studies how Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake makes experimentation with theory of time making a departure from linear flow of time in plot development and thus reflecting the writer’s self by bringing historical, social and literary references. . He uses the black humor to harshly attack the vanities of late capitalist system, the disaster upon ecologies, war, social injustices as well as inequalities. He shows the suspension of free will in the present humans by showing the shrinking of the universe. Along with this, he presents the world using narrative intertextuality to show writer’s insufficiency of language to explain the present world and which also serves as evidences to strengthen the thesis.Item Self-reflexivity in Salman Rushdie’sShame(Department of English, 2021) Pokhrel, PawanThis research paper explores Salman Rushdie’s novelShameby focusing on the self-reflexive nature of narration. It attempts to highlight that this approach ofthe authorto self-reference his own processdraws attention tothe constructed nature of thenoveland it also challengesthevariousoppressive ideologiesby drawing attention to their construction.There is a regular intrusion ofnarrator as the authorof thenovel where he discusses in length about his inspiration, ideas and approach to write this novel.Here the author reflects upon the various issues like historical narrative, religion, relationship of shame and violence, oppression of women.Instead of justdramatizing the issues and themes, the author examines their construction and function. By drawing attention to their conventionality, he problematizes their use as a tool of oppression.Thereareseveral references to the events and characters of Pakistan’s history as well as other literary works.This paper primarily uses Linda Hutcheon’s concept of Historiographic Metafictionand Patricia Waugh’s ideas of metafictionto explore how the Rushdie’s self-aware and self-referential technique of storytelling focuses on the intertextual and parodic nature of this novel.The self- reflexive act of the narrator illuminates the various themes and issues discussed by the novel.Thenarrator lays bare the traditional methods of characterization and narrationandhighlights the constructed nature and artificiality of the textas well as reality.It also foregrounds the relationship between fiction and the world outside the fiction.