Haunted by a Fantasy of Immortality: “Spirit” by Janet Frame
This essay provides a close analysis of one story by Janet Frame, “Spirit,” from her first collection, The Lagoon and Other Stories, and argues that it figures the accomplishment of a desire to achieve accommodation with death. The story purports to answer the question: “What is it that happens to m...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | This essay provides a close analysis of one story by Janet Frame, “Spirit,” from her first collection, The Lagoon and Other Stories, and argues that it figures the accomplishment of a desire to achieve accommodation with death. The story purports to answer the question: “What is it that happens to mankind after death?” and provides a dead-pan answer in which polysemy, paronomasia, and onomastics reveal an interaction with multiple intertextual sources which subtend a fantasy of immortality. |
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