“His cramped and claustrophobic brain”: Confinement and Freedom in John Wray’s Lowboy
This article shows that ambivalence is a major symbolic pattern in John Wray’s 2009 neuronovel Lowboy, and it affects the major aspects of the novel, including the characters’ identities and the narrative structure of the book. Ambivalence may refer either to the split personality of the schizophren...
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Main Author: | Pascale Antolin |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2019-07-01
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/14639 |
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