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