Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780367665586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 202 str.

Armelle Parey

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).