The impenetrable M and the mysteries of narration: Narrative in Minette Walters's The Shape of Snakes

• The author analyzes the narrative of Minette Walters's The Shape of Snakes, focusing on the role of the interpolated letters, the gothic references, and the construction of the first-person narrator-protagonist, who proves to be unreliable. Eclectic uses of genre conventions mean that reading strategies must be reconsidered during reading.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Feminist crime fiction

narrative

genre conventions

interpolated letters

Publikations- och innehållstyp

ref (ämneskategori)

art (ämneskategori)