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A Continuity of Voices in Russell Banks’s A Permanent Member of the Family

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Why do certain works seem to address us compellingly? This paper attempts to provide elements for an answer by putting forward the notion of a “voice of the text.” Taking Russell Banks’s short story collection A Permanent Member of the Family as its example, it explores some of the modalities whereby readers may trace singular and changing paths through the text that are shaped by their own history and sensibility as much as by the text’s potentials. Through the study of the becoming of the text, whose status as an apparently frozen object is questioned, one hopes to approach the complexity of the mental representation referred to whenever the title of a literary work is mentioned.

Source: Sillages critiques

DOI: 10.4000/sillagescritiques.15268

Author: Anne-Laure Tissut

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones, Equipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les aires culturelles, Université de Rouen Normandie

Language: English

Topic: Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4389575431

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