The construction and function of the character of Robert Ross in Timothy Findley’s The Wars
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2021
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Tartu Ülikool
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Timothy Findley’s The Wars focuses on the story of a young man named Robert Ross with the novel presented as a research project with the aim to find out who Robert Ross was and what the possible reasons for his questionable decisions were. The story is structured from various intertexts such as interviews and photographs and the complex narrative is constructed through multiple narrators with Robert Ross never appearing as a narrator himself. The aim of this research paper is to find out how Robert is constructed: which intertexts and methods are implemented in order to build and explore him as a character as well as construct the narrative around his story. Another aim is to find possible functions that Robert Ross serves in the novel and what groups he could represent.
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intertekstid, tegelaskuju konstrueerimine