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Hotel du Lac is the most original and innovative of Brookner’s novels, even as it also remains the one most intimately linked to the world of popular romance. The latter is squarely confronted by the introduction of heroine Edith Hope, ‘a writer of romantic fiction under a more thrusting name’ (8).
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For a comprehensive and highly suggestive application of Jakobson’s distinction between metonym and metaphor, see David Lodge’s The modes of modern writing: metaphor, metonymy, and the typology of modern literature (London: Edward Arnold, 1979).
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Skinner, J. (1992). Novel Departures. In: The Fictions of Anita Brookner. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22014-4_3
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