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Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia : Revue publiée par les Sections romane, italienne et anglaise de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Zagreb, Vol. 35 No. -, 1990.

Original scientific paper

Joyce Carol Oates's Remaking of Classic Stories

Višnja Sepčić

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Abstract

The article deals with three of Joyce Carol Oates's short stories that are imaginative reworkings of great classic texts: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Kafka's Metamorphopsis and Joyce's The Dead. In their different ways each of these stories profoundly modifies the prototypal structure, being both faithful and unfaithful to it. Together they prove that, as Laurent Jenny says, intertextuality "is a definitive rejection of the full stop which would close the meaning and freeze the form".

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Hrčak ID:

121463

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/121463

Publication date:

24.9.1990.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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