Abstract
Whether explicitly mentioned or not, the Bible is obviously an hypotext par excellence for Janet
Frame’s The Carpathians, in the sense intended by Gérard Genette in his 1982 structuralist study
Palimpsestes, in particular if one considers Frame’s continued use of the The Book of Genesis,
which explains the beginnings of many things.
Thus this essay aims to devote substantial attention to identifying and clarifying biblical material
and patterns in the novel, as it is surely through the sacred background-texts so constantly invoked
by the author as well as the countless biblical echoes discovered by the reader time and again that
Frame’s reworked story of Mattina Brecon can acquire additional value and prophetical insight.
| Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] The importance of "starting from the beginning". Palimpsests and palingenesis in The Carpathians by Janet Frame » |
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| Lingua originale | Italian |
| pagine (da-a) | 119-141 |
| Numero di pagine | 23 |
| Rivista | IL CONFRONTO LETTERARIO |
| Volume | Anno XXX |
| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2013 |
Keywords
- Janet Frame, La leggenda del fiore della memoria, memoria, leggenda, Nuova Zelanda, Bibbia, Libro della Genesi, ipotesto, Gérard Genette, studi strutturalisti
- Janet Frame, The Carpathians, memory, legend, New Zealand, Maori, Bible, Book of Genesis, hypotext, Gérard Genette, structuralist studies