A.S. Byatt and the “perpetual traveller”: a reading practice for new British fiction
While most readers enjoyed, or at least admired A.S. Byatt’s Booker prize-winning novel “Possession”, many are puzzled by her work before and since. This essay argues that the problem is not the novels themselves, but rather the way that readers approach them. Conventional reading practices for expe...
Main Author: | Nicole Flynn |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidad de La Rioja
2018-12-01
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Series: | Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/jes/article/view/3450 |
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