A New Ontology for the Female Subject: The Rise of the Flat Character in Stories by Solvej Balle and Kirsten Thorup

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the way the literary convention of the “flat-character” is re-imagined, in Kirsten Thorup’s story “Crazy Marie” and Solvej Balle’s “Alette V.,” as a feminist trope that disrupts modern fiction’s clichéd representations of female characters. The flat-c...

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Main Author: Thea Bowering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta Library 2005-12-01
Series:Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
Online Access:https://scancan.net/index.php/scancan/article/view/1