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There are so many analogies and parallels between different Brookner novels — in structure, theme and even the smallest incidental detail — that it is natural to ask whether all nine may not in fact be variations on a single subject; or even, in some sense, related versions of what is essentially one monolithic fiction. Such hypotheses may be tested by a judicious combination of structuralist narratology and the autobiographical approach.
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See especially A-J. Greimas’s Structural Semantics; an attempt at a method (Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska University Press, 1983).
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Skinner, J. (1992). Fictions of the Self. In: The Fictions of Anita Brookner. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22014-4_5
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