“A Jinx is Feared . . . Knowledge Must Be Paid For”: The Configuration of the Ageing Woman as Crone and Witch in A. S. Byatt’s “The Dried Witch”
This article examines the figuration of woman as a witch in A. S. Byatt’s short story “The Dried Witch.” It also investigates the way in which Byatt creatively problematises the historical connection between old age and becoming a witch through the analysis of the archetypal figure of the Crone. Fin...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2022
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |