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Reframing narrative : photographic memory in Penelope Lively's family album
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Wilkie-Stibbs, C. (2014) Reframing narrative : photographic memory in Penelope Lively's family album. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies : A Journal of Criticism and Theory , 16 (2). pp. 366-382. ISSN 1524-8429.
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Abstract
This article draws upon photographic and narrative theories. Through close textual reading, I decode British Booker Prize–winning Penelope Lively’s novel Family Album (2009) as a montage of verbal snapshots framing two generations of family life through the culturally institutionalized familial gaze—as seen through the “camera-eye.” Benjamin’s “unconscious optics” uncover Family Album as a narrative of generational resistance and disquiet irreducible to myths of family depicted in the “album’s” iconic images. I argue that this novel marks a significant development in Lively’s creative imagination, and narrative structure more widely, in its ability to materialize personal memory via the use of verbal images as a narrative device.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute of Education ( -2013) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Interdisciplinary Literary Studies : A Journal of Criticism and Theory | ||||
Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 1524-8429 | ||||
Official Date: | 11 September 2014 | ||||
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Volume: | 16 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 366-382 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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