The intervention between art and life : a study of the meta-literary modes in Emily St. John Mandel's station eleven (2014)‎

الملخص EN

The purpose of this paper is to study the meta-literary modes employed in Emily St.

John Mandel's novel, Station Eleven (2014).

the outset of the paper provides a brief backdrop to introduce the usage of 'meta-literary' modes and expressions as possible vehicles to support textual analyses of significant episodes in the novel.

the analytical part rendered in this paper tends to demonstrate the overt overlap between actual life and imagined art as exposed in Mandel's novel.

within the novel, Mandel has embedded another comic graphic novel, Dr.

Eleven, to illustrate, relate, and emphasize the influences of her embedded novel on the lives of the characters in Station Eleven.

the study also explores the role art plays in life through parallelism and coincidence.

besides, the study provides supporting examples and references from the performance of Shakespeare's plays : King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream as exemplified by the travelling symphony in Station Eleven.

this technique based on the use of 'a play within a novel,' is called nested stories.

finally, the paper unveils the symbolic significances carried out by the objects as these 'meta-objects' are dense with a variety of indexical meanings beyond their literal ones; they represent hope and civilization for the characters in Station Eleven.