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Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction book cover

1st Edition

Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

Edited By Armelle Parey Copyright 2019
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge
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This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished novel are retrieved to be developed in new adventures set before, after or during the narrative time of the source-text. If autographic and allographic sequels are almost as old as literature, prequels – that imagine the anteriority of a narrative – and... Read more


Acknowledgements



Introduction: Narrative expansions - The Story So Far...



ARMELLE PAREY





PART I



Prequels



1 Prequel Ontology and Temporality: The Thresholds of John Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius



BEN DAVIES



2 "Wide Sargasso Sea as a Prequel to Jane Eyre: From Visuality to Iconicity" (1966)



ANNE-LAURE FORTIN-TOURNÈS



3 Literary Filiations and Textual Archeology: Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child



FRANÇOISE KRÁL





PART II



Coquels



4 A Coquel Set ‘far away, where the fighting was’: On Geraldine Brooks’ March and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women"



CATHERINE PADMORE



5 Servants with a Voice in Jo Baker’s Longbourn, a Coquel to Pride and Prejudice



ARMELLE PAREY



6 Sensibly Organized: Filling in Gaps with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality



KATHERINE MCCAIN





PART III



Sequels



7 The Neighborly Mr. Ripley: Patricia Highsmith’s Suburban Sequels



PAUL THIFAULT



8 Julian Barnes and the Contemporary English Sequel



MERRITT MOSELEY



9 Messy Multiplicity: Strategies for Serialisation in New Adult Fiction



JODI MCALISTER



10 P. D. James’s Death Comes to Pemberley (2011), a Sequel with Many Twists



ISABELLE ROBLIN





PART IV



Prequels, Coquels, Sequels and Beyond



11 Uncanny Repetitions: The Generative Power of the "Reader, I Married Him" Mantra in Tracy Chevalier’s Anthology of Short Stories



GEORGES LETISSIER





List of Contributors



Index

Biography

Armelle Parey is assistant professor at the University of Caen-Normandie, France. She has published a number of articles on narrative endings, memory and rewritings of the past in contemporary English-speaking fiction. She has co-edited collections of essays and guest-edited special issues on the question of narrative closure in fiction and film: Re-Writing Jane Eyre (La Revue LISA 4.4, 2006); Happy Endings and Films (Houdiard, 2010); Literary Happy Endings, Closure for Sunny Imaginations (Shaker Verlag, 2012); L’Inachevé ou l’ère des possibles dans la littérature anglophone, Récits ouverts et incomplets (Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2014); Character　Migration in Anglophone Literature (E-rea 13.1, 2015). She is currently co-editing a collection on screen adaptations of literary endings. She has also guest-edited with Isabelle Roblin: A.S. Byatt, Before and after Possession: Recent Critical Approaches (Book Practices and Textual Itineraries 8, Presses Universitaires de Nancy-Editions de Lorraine, 2017).

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