The Historicity of the Texts in Possession

DOI

10.2991/sschd-19.2019.29How to use a DOI?

Keywords

New historical analysis, The historicity of texts, Root for the modern people, Self-identity.

Abstract

In view of the novel’s complexity of the texts, this paper focuses on the new historical analysis of A. S. Byatt’s Possession. Through studying two epigraphs of the novel, the poem—“The Lady of Shalott” and Gode’s tale, the author scrutinizes the novel from “the historicity of texts” perspectives, and finally makes out modern people’s desire for the past and the reflective effects of the past on the present. The history in the novel provides root for the modern people, meanwhile the present searches the past for love and self-identity.

Copyright

© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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