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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openedition-oai:revues.org:ces_5413 https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.5413 urn:doi:10.4000/ces.5413 en https://journals.openedition.org/ces/5413 2021-07-21T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dszu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Haunted by a Fantasy of Immortality: “Spirit” by Janet Frame Commonwealth Essays and Studies SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2534-6695 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-0633 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces Ventura, Héliane 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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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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