Temporality and Simulacrum of the Medieval Past in the Literary Present of Postmodernity: the Reformulation of the Story of Apollonius of Tyre in Mark Haddon’s The Porpoise

The main outcome of this paper is to analyze how the medieval past is recovered postmodernity, through the reformulation of the story of Apollonius of Tyre in Mark Haddon’s recent novel The Porpoise. The research focuses on what the novel highlights from the medieval account of the hero’s adventures...

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