Sense and Sensibility revisited: Emma Tennats’s Elinor and Marianne
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1027
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i4.98
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i4.98
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Lara Rallo, CarmenFecha
2003Resumen
Elinor and Marianne is a playfully parodic sequel to Sense and Sensibility in which Emma Tennant explores the lives of Austen.’s characters after the .‘happy ending.’ of Sense and Sensibility. Apart from exposing the artificiality of some realistic conventions underlying Austen.’s novel, Elinor and Marianne articulates a change in the narrative mode which replaces the monological perspective of the omniscient narrative by the dialogic focalisation of the multiple narrators of an epistolary novel. This change opens the way for the exploration of the characters of Sense and Sensibility, whose behaviour and attitudes in Elinor and Marianne invite the reader to revisit their presentation and appraisal in Austen.’s novel. Elinor and Marianne es una continuación de Sense and Sensibility basada en juegos paródicos en la que Emma Tennant explora la vida de los personajes de Austen tras el .‘final feliz.’ de Sense and Sensibility. Además de dejar al descubierto la artificialidad de algunas conv...
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Sense and sensibility
Elinor and Marianne
Sentido y sensibilidad
Emma Tennant
Jane Austen