FROM THE MIRROR TO THE SEA: THE MODERN SEMIOTIC NATURE OF IDENTITY IN JEAN RHYS’S WIDE SARGASSO SEA
FROM THE MIRROR TO THE SEA: THE MODERN SEMIOTIC NATURE OF IDENTITY IN JEAN RHYS’S WIDE SARGASSO SEA
Author(s): Cristina-Georgiana VoicuSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: doubled identity; intertextual metaphors; loss of selfhood; periphery of consciousness
Summary/Abstract: This paper attempts to show the way in which Rhys’s metaphors reach a new pitch of vividness and power through imagistic detail, but also draw on the natural dimensions of intellectual and sense experiences, including colour, shape and texture. Such focused patterning and reworking of her own metaphors creates a sense of fatalistic inevitability, generating a hypnotic, spellbinding effect.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 101-110
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English