THE SYNTHESIS OF POSTMODERN AND REALISTIC NARRATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC NOVEL “MASTER GEORGIE” BY BERYL BAINBRIDGE

The article deals with the synthesis of postmodern and realistic narrative strategies as a general characteristic feature of the British historiographic novel of the end of the 20th ? the beginning of the 21st cent. and as a particular mode of an original and balanced merge of the past dimension with the present one ? either explicit or implicit in any historiographic novel. 'Master Georgie' by Beryl Bainbridge is taken as an illustrative material for the analyses. The article is intended as a case study of the novel in the context of postmodern conceptualization of history.