« Through a Glass Darkly » : the Opaque Transparence of « The Glass Coffin » by A. S. Byatt
Opening The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, a collection of short-stories published in 1994, “The Glass Coffin”, through its very title and its reference to the familiar world of the fairy-tale, seems to promise its reader a transparent reading. However, its “palimpsestuous” depths soon reveal opaqu...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2013-09-01
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Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/484 |