Intertextuality and Narrative Structure in Selected Stories by Lorrie Moore | ||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 08 March 2025 | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2025.365579.2587 | ||
| Author | ||
| هدى السيد أحمد خلاف* | ||
| كلية الآداب بجامعة المنوفية | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Most critical reviews of Lorrie Moore’s short stories focused on carrying out thematic interpretations of them ; and in terms of style, critical studies mainly drew attention to Lorrie Moore’s use of humor as an irony tool in the face of the unpleasant aspects of 21st century American daily life. In this paper I shed light on the relationship between intertextuality and narrative structure(s) in three selected stories from Lorrie Moore’s latest collection, Bark [2014]: The first of these stories, “The Juniper Tree”, bears the same title as the Grimm Brothers’ gothic fairy tale; the second story, “Wings”, begins with a quote from Henry James’ The Wings of the Dove; and the third story, “Referential”, Lorrie Moore claims, ‘began as a shadow’ of Vladimir Nabokov’s tale, “Signs and Symbols”—This paper studies how far these three stories mirror or borrow from their literary ancestors; and whether they share, or not, a common narrative pattern. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Intertextuality; Narrative Structure; Symbols | ||
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