This article examines the issue of the collection of short-stories in the works of Jean Rhys and Janet Frame. Within its composition itself, it stages the necessary yet paradoxical repetition of endings, along with the incessant regeneration and reinstatement of the narrative voice. Far from being a self-sufficient literary production anymore (according to E.A. Poe’s theories for instance), the short-story discusses and re-evaluates the notion of ending, but also elaborates upon the rejection of one final ending inside the collection, thus creating effects of echo, repetition and intertextuality. Thus dismissing the hermetical qualities of the short-story, the collection becomes the place where voices interact, just as it destabilises one o...
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Why choose to give a novel two endings? This is the umpreenth challenge thrown down by Amélie Nothom...
With reference to contemporary short story cycles (published post-2000), this dissertation proposes ...
This article examines the issue of the collection of short-stories in the works of Jean Rhys and Jan...
Couvrant la quasi-totalité du XXe siècle, les écrits de Jean Rhys, Janet Frame et Anita Desai témoig...
International audienceClosure and happy endings are not phrases that immediately come to mind when l...
A book is by definition a closed and delineated shape, which explains why most literary narratives a...
International audienceThis essay proposes to analyse the way Janet Frame defamiliarises the conventi...
International audienceThis paper proposes to look at two contemporary British novels that, contrary ...
Drawing on her experiences as a writer and teacher of short fiction, the author offers an interrogat...
This paper proposes to look at two contemporary British novels that, contrary to traditional practic...
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Cet article a pour objets d’étude six romans britanniques publiés très récemment, qui ont en commun ...
This article explores the phenomenon of character migration in one of Alice Munro’s early works, Liv...
Why choose to give a novel two endings? This is the umpreenth challenge thrown down by Amélie Nothom...
With reference to contemporary short story cycles (published post-2000), this dissertation proposes ...
This article examines the issue of the collection of short-stories in the works of Jean Rhys and Jan...
Couvrant la quasi-totalité du XXe siècle, les écrits de Jean Rhys, Janet Frame et Anita Desai témoig...
International audienceClosure and happy endings are not phrases that immediately come to mind when l...
A book is by definition a closed and delineated shape, which explains why most literary narratives a...
International audienceThis essay proposes to analyse the way Janet Frame defamiliarises the conventi...
International audienceThis paper proposes to look at two contemporary British novels that, contrary ...
Drawing on her experiences as a writer and teacher of short fiction, the author offers an interrogat...
This paper proposes to look at two contemporary British novels that, contrary to traditional practic...
Cet article examine la notion de fermeture dans la fiction néo-victorienne d’A. S. Byatt, genre qui ...
This article examines Daphne du Maurier as a writer of popular-fiction genres, concentrating in part...
This thesis examines the relationship between part and whole in novels by Antoine François Prévost t...
Cet article a pour objets d’étude six romans britanniques publiés très récemment, qui ont en commun ...
This article explores the phenomenon of character migration in one of Alice Munro’s early works, Liv...
Why choose to give a novel two endings? This is the umpreenth challenge thrown down by Amélie Nothom...
With reference to contemporary short story cycles (published post-2000), this dissertation proposes ...