Title: Coming to Terms with the Murderer: Explanatory Mechanisms and Narrative Strategies in Three American Novels with Transgressive Protagonists
Abstract: The attempt to rehabilitate a murdering protagonist is common in American fiction. In naturalist novels this is achieved by ‘explaining’ the crime. However, a parallel strategy involving rehabilitation of the murderer through the manipulation of the reader’s sympathies is also in play. This last achieves greater prominence by the mid-twentieth century.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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