Open AccessJasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair:an Amusing Critical Experiment
Author(s) -
Yen-Maï Tran-Gervat
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
lisa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1762-6153
DOI - 10.4000/lisa.855
Subject(s) - romance , interpretation (philosophy) , narrative , literature , history , art , art history , philosophy , linguistics
In his intertextual and metatextual novel, J. Fforde does not propose a specific, coherent interpretation of Jane Eyre: his parody is more an “amusing critical experiment”, a playful narrative in which Charlotte Brontë’s romance is brought to life in a way that allows every reader to deal with such critical issues in Jane Eyre as point of view, the controversial ending and the creation of characters