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1 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.4631
- eisbn: 9782869064751
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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cliché stylistique stéréotype psychologie littérature de langue anglaise Humanities, Multidisciplinary Literature (General) LIT000000 DSSujets proches
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Charlotte Sturgess, « Manipulating Clichés: Margaret Atwood's Romance Narrative "Bluebeard's Egg" », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.4631
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The story "Bluebeard's Egg", in the collection of the same name, takes up Atwood's favourite theme of discord between the sexes and its attendant uneasy balance of power. In the narrative, "romance" and its associated clichés articulate a system of meaning which could be qualified as a lesson to the reader in the uses, misuses, and constraints of the reading process. Playing upon the cliché's preconstructed, codified status, its complicity with systems of values, Atwood seeks to challenge suc...