Character Migration in Anglophone Literature

This collection of essays is part of an ongoing project dealing with the elusive question of the ending or, as Frank Kermode once put it, “the sense of an ending” (our italics) in literary texts. Following on from two previous studies on Happy Endings and the Unfinished, the aim is now to deal with...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/erea,
Auteurs principaux: PAREY, Armelle, ROBLIN, Isabelle
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: E-rea 2015
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Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:This collection of essays is part of an ongoing project dealing with the elusive question of the ending or, as Frank Kermode once put it, “the sense of an ending” (our italics) in literary texts. Following on from two previous studies on Happy Endings and the Unfinished, the aim is now to deal with these characters that “live on” beyond the endings written by their authors and who overstep the limits of the work in which they were created.“Characters migrate,” Umberto Eco famously wrote, exp...