The semiotics of a ship and its modelling features in the novels of William Golding, Julian Barnes, and Gregory Norminton
... Golding, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by J. Barnes, and The Ship of Fools by Gr. Norminton. The ship is considered a new version of the Biblical Noah’s Ark – a miniature society. The authors believe that the avantext integrates the new “generative model” creating at the same time new forms of fictional conditionality and types of literary generalisation.
1. Barnes J. The History of the World in 10 ½ chapters. L., 1989.
2. Golding W. Rites of Passage. L., 1985.
3. Norminton G. The ship of ...
