What’s in a Rank? Foregrounding Secondary Characters in Chick Lit
What’s in a Rank? Foregrounding Secondary Characters in Chick Lit

Summary/Abstract: The prompt for this paper is the question of to what extent secondary characters in a novel – here a chick lit novel – simply replicate the paradigms that the main characters inhabit, and to what extent they propose novel ones of their own. To answer this question, I will use extracts from Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic and Sister (2004) as data for analysis.

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