The Right Hand Writing and the Left Hand Erasing in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin

This paper demonstrates how the overlapping of the embedded narratives in Atwood’s palimpsestic Booker Prize-winning novel exposes the mechanisms of the framing narrative, all the while disclosing the teleological, referential, and axiological dimensions underlying literary forms, and, simultaneousl...

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Autore principale: Dvorak, Marta
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2024
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:This paper demonstrates how the overlapping of the embedded narratives in Atwood’s palimpsestic Booker Prize-winning novel exposes the mechanisms of the framing narrative, all the while disclosing the teleological, referential, and axiological dimensions underlying literary forms, and, simultaneously, decoding a societal order based on cryptic codes.