Pornography as Ludism and Diegetic Interpenetration in A.S. Byatt’s Babel Tower

I would like to begin by amending my title, the Anglo-Saxon brutality of which will be seen in due course to result directly from the nature of the novel in question. A.S. Byatt’s Babel Tower is the third in the projected tetralogy which began with The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life, the compl...

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Udgivet i:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/polysemes,
Hovedforfatter: Mundler, Helen
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:Anglais
Udgivet: Polysèmes 2017
Online adgang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:I would like to begin by amending my title, the Anglo-Saxon brutality of which will be seen in due course to result directly from the nature of the novel in question. A.S. Byatt’s Babel Tower is the third in the projected tetralogy which began with The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life, the completion of which is expected imminently, with A Whistling Woman. As my topic suggests, I have chosen to concentrate on the darker aspects of this novel, placing it in two distinct schemas of intertex...