Conceptualising Time and Space in Winterson’s the Passion and Written on the Body

• Authors: Andrea Kriston
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Time and space are major themes in Winterson’s novels. My goal in this paper is to focus on the way these concepts are analysed from the perspective of two of her novels, The Passion and Written on the Body. Winterson succeeds in creating and conferring new values on these concepts in her novels, thus allowing them a different interpretation.

Keywords

EN

body; social space; space; time; water.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: Supplement
• Pages: 102-111

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2012-12-28

Contributors

author

Andrea Kriston

• Tibiscus University, Timișoara 4-6, Lascăr Catargiu St, Timișoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0009-6