Great Expectations as a Pre-Postmodern Rewriting of The Odyssey?

The postmodern age in literature is characterized by, among other things, a tendency to rewrite classic masterpieces. And there have been, indeed, modern rewritings of Dickens’s novels. Great Expectations is a case in point. Yet this literary game did not really start in the postmodern age and I wou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alain Jumeau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2012-01-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/12429