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The "Incongruous Stranger" As Structural Element In The Novels Of Elsa Triolet, Lorene M. Birden Jun 2001

The "Incongruous Stranger" As Structural Element In The Novels Of Elsa Triolet, Lorene M. Birden

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In Language in Literature, Roman Jakobson underlines the presence of a certain device, which he calls he superfluous passerby, in Russian realist literature. This element has traveled into French literature with a Russian-born expatriate novelist. Several works by Eisa Triolet present this type of character, and extend the device structurally. In this device a character can provoke a new development in plot or character relations. Such a character has no direct relationship to the characters or events portrayed. Therefore, as opposed to classic novelistic perspective, this incongruous and unknown character shifts and blurs characterial hierarchy. The superfluous passerby displaces …


Freedom Illuminated By Imprisonment In One Day In The Life Ofivan Denisovich, Kristine Koslowsky Jan 2001

Freedom Illuminated By Imprisonment In One Day In The Life Ofivan Denisovich, Kristine Koslowsky

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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