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- Title
Waterscapes and liminality: a stylistic analysis of Colum McCann's spatialities of rebirth.
- Authors
Bourdeau, Marion
- Abstract
This paper focuses on the processes of rebirth the characters experience in extracts from four works (two novels, a novella and a short story) by Irish author Colum McCann. These characters are defined by a strong sense of displacement and betweenness but they go through deep transformations, through physical closeness with waterscapes - spatialities that are closely associated with water -, as well as through the game of mirrors between them that ensues. This article analyses how the latter stem from the connections between waterscapes and phenomena of suspension and liminality. It also aims to study how the writing of these mechanisms echoes them, by identifying the main stylistic characteristics that are specific to the author's description of these phenomena and forms of spatiality. To this end, it uses analytic tools borrowed from narratology and cognitive stylistics such as the figure/ground opposition and phenomena of visual and linguistic salience.
- Subjects
STYLISTIC analysis; LIMINALITY; MCCANN, Colum, 1965-; CHARACTER sketches; NARRATOLOGY
- Publication
Études de Stylistique Anglaise, 2021, Vol 16, p1
- ISSN
2116-1747
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/esa.4499