Copyright (c) 2013 University of Rhode Island All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/eng_facpubs Recent documents in English Faculty Publications en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 08:55:14 PDT 3600 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/eng_facpubs/4 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/eng_facpubs/4 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:10:12 PST Jean Walton http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/eng_facpubs/3 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/eng_facpubs/3 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:25:10 PST Jean Walton http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/eng_facpubs/2 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/eng_facpubs/2 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:06:36 PST Karen Stein http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/eng_facpubs/1 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/eng_facpubs/1 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:38:38 PST Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God has strong affinities to Claire Kahane's analysis of the Gothic narrative tradition: these include the supernatural, sleep-like states, difficulties in telling a story, discovery of secrets, discussions of female sexuality, absent mothers, a secret room, a controlling male figure, a mysterious lover, and different narrative voices. Gothic novels also explore the position of women in the home and family. Laurence incorporates Gothic conventions but modifies them, allowing her heroine, Rachel, to find her own voice(s) and escape from the guilt, shame, and imprisonment of her past.

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