Onega Jaén, Susana
The symbol made text: Charles Palliser's postmodernist re-writing of Dickens in The Quincunx
ONEGA JAÉN, Susana. “The symbol made text: Charles Palliser's postmodernist re-writing of Dickens in The Quincunx”. Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses. No. 6 (Nov. 1993). ISSN 0214-4808, pp. 131-141
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/6199
DOI: 10.14198/raei.1993.6.12
ISSN: 0214-4808
Abstract: 
Early reviewers of The Quincunx (1989) immediately recognised the novel's striking
stylistic and thematic indebtedness to Dickens and to other early Victorian writers, a fact
that led them to describe Charles Palliser's first novel as a brilliant attempt to reproduce
an early Victorian novel. However, closer examination reveals that The Quincunx is not
merely a belated imitation of Victorian fiction, but rather a neatly structured, symbolically
complex and highly self-conscious parody of it, in line with other contemporary
historiographic metafictions, like The French Lieutenant's Woman or The Name of the
Rose, and expresses Palliser's own postmodernist world-view.
Keywords:Literatura inglesa, Novela, Palliser, Charles, The Quincunx, Dickens, Charles, Influencia, Sociedad victoriana, Posmodernismo
Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa
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