From the edges: voice and paratext in the narrative construction of Jacqueline Goldberg's The clear hours (2013)
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paratext, narrative construction, The clear hours, Jacqueline GoldbergAbstract
This paper presents a close and comprehensive reading of the novel Las horas claras in order to account for its complex narrative framework. As a matter of fact, we consider that, in this work, the constant appeal to the resource of paratext (Gérard Genette) is a function of a dialogic (Mikhail Bakhtin) and intertextual (Julia Kristeva) narrative. Thus, Las horas claras becomes a sort of battlefield between voices that emerge not only from the central body of the work, but also from multiple paratexts, which, rather than accompanying or limiting it, expand its meaning and give it depth. Las horas claras, then, more than the recounting of the small history of an egregious house, should be considered the story of struggle and survival of a voice: that of Madame Savoye.
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