Playing with Fire

This paper aims at delineating the different devices used by Graham Swift in his first novel, The Sweet Shop Owner, concerning the treatment of emotion. Both implicitly and explicitly, Swift is fond of taking risks when it comes to conveying emotion into words. Drawing on the work of Roger Caillois...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marc Porée
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2011-12-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1354