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The Narratology Of Jennifer Johnston's Novels, Robert N. Hutton
The Narratology Of Jennifer Johnston's Novels, Robert N. Hutton
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Irish novelist Jennifer Johnston has published twelve novels to date, from The Captains and the Kings in 1972 to The Gingerbread Woman in 2000. Eileen Battersby's recent Irish Times article “Making Sense of Life” called her “the quiet woman of Irish fiction, “ referring to her understated, sophisticated writing style. All of her novels are short (Joseph Connelly and others have called them “novellas”), and she has become known for her ability to describe a complex situation in a direct, compact way.
This discussion is intended to investigate the narratology of several Johnston novels: to explore narrative voice, narrative chronology, …