“You say you want to be transformed” : Jeanette Winterson and reader empowerment in The Powerbook and Art & Lies
In her novels Art & Lies and The.Powerbook, Jeanette Winterson consistently fragments the narratives and foregrounds fictional contrivance to position readers as active participants in the generation of multivalent narratives about love and its meanings. Through her use of metafictional story-te...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-522342021-02-17T08:25:57Z “You say you want to be transformed” : Jeanette Winterson and reader empowerment in The Powerbook and Art & Lies Zhang, Youying School of Humanities and Social Sciences Jennifer Megan Crawford DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English In her novels Art & Lies and The.Powerbook, Jeanette Winterson consistently fragments the narratives and foregrounds fictional contrivance to position readers as active participants in the generation of multivalent narratives about love and its meanings. Through her use of metafictional story-telling methods, overt fictional artifices and mise-en-abyme, Winterson disrupts numerous love narratives including her own in order to prompt her readers to question existing tropes and beliefs in love narratives. These techniques are explored through the Reader Response approach. Bachelor of Arts 2013-04-25T07:55:02Z 2013-04-25T07:55:02Z 2013 2013 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52234 en 36 p. application/pdf |
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In her novels Art & Lies and The.Powerbook, Jeanette Winterson consistently fragments the narratives and foregrounds fictional contrivance to position readers as active participants in the generation of multivalent narratives about love and its meanings. Through her use of metafictional story-telling methods, overt fictional artifices and mise-en-abyme, Winterson disrupts numerous love narratives including her own in order to prompt her readers to question existing tropes and beliefs in love narratives. These techniques are explored through the Reader Response approach. |
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