"Metroland" by J. Barnes as an Urban Bildungsroman: The Poetics of Infant Imagery
The article discusses typical features of English postmodern prose as it examines the genre of the novel “Metroland” by J. Barnes. The author analyzes infant imagery as a modern modification of the classic infant imagery of the era of realism and identifies the main components of the poetics of the novel, including its character, plot, composition, and psychology.