"I was in a red forest and she was leading me home": Representation of the maze and labyrinth in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion

COX, Katharine (2008). "I was in a red forest and she was leading me home": Representation of the maze and labyrinth in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion. Critical engagements: a journal of criticism and theory, 2 (1), 111-136.

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Abstract

Within the structural and thematic concerns of Jeanette Winterson's cycle of seven novels (1985-2000) encounters with the maze and the labyrinth are persistent though, at times, implicit. Winterson's adoption of these forms serves a three-fold purpose; firstly, to make prominent narrative experimentations, principally concerning the process of reading; secondly, to explore recurrent leitmotif (primarily of love and identity achieved or lost through journey), and finally to act as an overarching premise for the cycle of seven novels.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	ISBN for the Volume : 0953801721, 9780953801725
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Humanities Research Centre
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > Department of Humanities
Page Range:	111-136
Depositing User:	Katharine Cox
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2018 15:01
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 12:27
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/21271

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