Sense and Sensibility revisited: Emma Tennats’s Elinor and Marianne
ABSTRACT Elinor and Marianne is a playfully parodic sequel to Sense and Sensibility in which Emma Tennant explores the lives of Austen´s characters after the 'happy ending' of Sense and Sensibility. Apart from exposing the artificiality of some realistic conventions underlying Austen'...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Almeria
2017-02-01
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| Series: | Odisea |
| Online Access: | http://ojs.ual.es/ojs/index.php/ODISEA/article/view/98 |
| Summary: | ABSTRACT
Elinor and Marianne is a playfully parodic sequel to Sense and Sensibility in
which Emma Tennant explores the lives of Austen´s characters after the 'happy ending' of Sense and Sensibility. Apart from exposing the artificiality of some realistic conventions underlying Austen's novel, Elinor and Marianne
articulates a change in the narrative mode which replaces the monological
perspective of the omniscient narrative by the dialogic focalisation of the
multiple narrators of an epistolary novel. This change opens the way for the
exploration of the characters of Sense and Sensibility, whose behaviour and
attitudes in Elinor and Marianne invite the reader to revisit their presentation
and appraisal in Austen's novel.
RESUMEN
Elinor and Marianne es una continuación de Sense and Sensibility basada en juegos paródicos en la que Emma Tennant explora la vida de los personajes de Austen tras el 'final feliz' de Sense and Sensibility. Además de dejar al descubierto la artificialidad de algunas convenciones realistas que subyacen tras la novela de Austen, Elinor and Marianne articula un cambio en el modo narrativo que reemplaza la perspectiva monológica de la narración omnisciente por la focalización dialógica de los narradores múltiples de una novela epistolar. Este cambio hace posible una exploración de los personajes de Sense and Sensibility, cuyo comportamiento y actitud en Elinor and Marianne invitan al lector a volver a considerar la presentación y valoración que de ellos se hacía en la novela de Austen. |
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| ISSN: | 1578-3820 2174-1611 |