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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• PAREY, Armelle
• ROBLIN, Isabelle

Titel

Character Migration in Anglophone Literature

Ist Teil von

• E-rea : Revue d'etudes anglophones, 2015-12, Vol.13

Ort / Verlag

Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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...