The Subversion of Genre in the Short Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman

Autor: Kate Gardner, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: The New England Quarterly. 65:447
ISSN: 0028-4866
DOI: 10.2307/366327
Popis: W HEN we first enter it, the fictional world of Mary Wilkins Freeman seems both familiar and strange. Weddings close the stories of lovers; heroines pine away of broken hearts; parents stand in the way of love, but love prevails. Many characters live "happily ever after," while occasionally a character dies for a cause, leaving the world "better," if poorer, than before. Yet each of these plot lines, familiar from traditional comedy or tragedy, receives a curious twist at Freeman's hands.'
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