Saverio Tomaiuolo, Victorian Unfinished Novels, The Imperfect Page
“The moment of closure is the point at which the events of a story become fully intelligible to the reader”, Catherine Belsey explains about classic realist narratives. For Peter Brooks, “only the end can finally determine meaning, close the sentence as a signifying totality”. Victorian novels more...
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E-rea
2013
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| Résumé: | “The moment of closure is the point at which the events of a story become fully intelligible to the reader”, Catherine Belsey explains about classic realist narratives. For Peter Brooks, “only the end can finally determine meaning, close the sentence as a signifying totality”. Victorian novels moreover favoured a tidy closure (Weiss). What then of these novels that were never completed and therefore never reached the point of closure? These are the texts under study in nineteenth-century spe... |
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