« Through a Glass Darkly » : the Opaque Transparence of « The Glass Coffin » by A. S. Byatt

« Through a Glass Darkly » : the Opaque Transparence of « The Glass Coffin » by A. S. Byatt

Opening The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, a collection of short-stories published in 1994, “The Glass Coffin”, through its very title and its reference to the familiar world of the fairy-tale, seems to promise its reader a transparent reading. However, its “palimpsestuous” depths soon reveal opaqu...

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Autor principal: Delesalle-Nancey, Catherine
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Publicat: Études britanniques contemporaines 2013
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_484 https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.484 urn:doi:10.4000/ebc.484 fr https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/484 2013-09-25T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/fe0h https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ « Through a Glass Darkly » : the Opaque Transparence of « The Glass Coffin » by A. S. Byatt Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Delesalle-Nancey, Catherine transparence Byatt conte énigme intertexte Possession Opening The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, a collection of short-stories published in 1994, “The Glass Coffin”, through its very title and its reference to the familiar world of the fairy-tale, seems to promise its reader a transparent reading. However, its “palimpsestuous” depths soon reveal opaque recesses which call into question the classical interpretations it first seemed to call for. The slight distortion the short-story brings to the traditional happy ending–the hero has to share his princess with her twin-brother–encourages the reader to look for interpretation keys in the intertexts, the short-story having first been published in Possession. But the very superposition of these intertexts, which fail to coincide, further blurs interpretation. It is therefore the metatextual dimension of the short-story which needs to be probed into as “The Glass Coffin” offers a multi-facetted portrait of the artist and his creation, eventually revealing transparence as a point of opacity.
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Delesalle-Nancey, Catherine
« Through a Glass Darkly » : the Opaque Transparence of « The Glass Coffin » by A. S. Byatt
description Opening The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, a collection of short-stories published in 1994, “The Glass Coffin”, through its very title and its reference to the familiar world of the fairy-tale, seems to promise its reader a transparent reading. However, its “palimpsestuous” depths soon reveal opaque recesses which call into question the classical interpretations it first seemed to call for. The slight distortion the short-story brings to the traditional happy ending–the hero has to share his princess with her twin-brother–encourages the reader to look for interpretation keys in the intertexts, the short-story having first been published in Possession. But the very superposition of these intertexts, which fail to coincide, further blurs interpretation. It is therefore the metatextual dimension of the short-story which needs to be probed into as “The Glass Coffin” offers a multi-facetted portrait of the artist and his creation, eventually revealing transparence as a point of opacity.
author Delesalle-Nancey, Catherine
author_facet Delesalle-Nancey, Catherine
author_sort Delesalle-Nancey, Catherine
title « Through a Glass Darkly » : the Opaque Transparence of « The Glass Coffin » by A. S. Byatt
title_short « Through a Glass Darkly » : the Opaque Transparence of « The Glass Coffin » by A. S. Byatt
title_full « Through a Glass Darkly » : the Opaque Transparence of « The Glass Coffin » by A. S. Byatt
title_fullStr « Through a Glass Darkly » : the Opaque Transparence of « The Glass Coffin » by A. S. Byatt
title_full_unstemmed « Through a Glass Darkly » : the Opaque Transparence of « The Glass Coffin » by A. S. Byatt
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