Le continuazioni di Great Expectations. Uno sguardo d’insieme
Keywords:
Great Expectations, continuation, rewriting, Estella, Magwitch, Jack Maggs
Abstract
Of Charles Dickens’ novels, Great Expectations (1861) is undoubtedly a case of special interest for the number of rewritings that this classic has given rise to since its publication 150 years ago. Among the various types of rewritings, this article focuses on three sequels published in the 1980s and 1990s: Magwitch by Michael Noonan, Estella by Alanna Knight and Jack Maggs by Peter Carey. The aim of the article is to highlight what rewriting strategies these novels have in common and their different effects, while showing the distinct ways they respond to the enigmatic Dickensian ending.
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DENTITH, Simon, Parody, London-New York, Routledge, 2000.
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DOLEŽEL, Lubomìr, Occidental Poetics. Tradition and Progress, Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska, 1990; Italian translation by Adelheid Conte, Poetica occidentale. Tradizione e progresso, Torino, Einaudi, 1990.
DOLEŽEL, Lubomìr, Heterocosmica. Fiction and Possible Worlds, Baltimore, John Hopkins UP, 1998; Italian Translation by Margherita Botto, Heterocosmica. Fiction e mondi possibili, Milano, Bompiani, 1999.
DOUGLASS, Thomas H., “The Passing of Another Shadow: A Third Ending to Great Expectations”, «Dickens Quarterly», I.3 (1984 Sept), pp. 94-96.
FORSTER, John, The Life of Charles Dickens, London, Dent, 1966, 2 vols. (reprint).
GAILE, Andreas (ed.), Fabulating Beauty. Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2004.
GENETTE, Gérard, Palimpsestes. La littérature au second degré, Paris, Seuils, 1982. Italian translation by Raffaella Novità, Palinsesti. La letteratura al secondo grado, Torino, Einaudi, 1997.
GUGLIELMI, Marina, Virginia, ti rammenti... Le riscritture di Paul et Virginie, Roma, Armando, 2002.
JONES, Lloyd, Mister Pip, (New Zealand, Penguin NZ, 2006), London, John Murray, 2007 (reprint).
KNIGHT, Alanna, Estella, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
LEITCH, Thomas M., “Closure and Teleology in Dickens”, «Studies in the Novel», XVIII.2 (1986 Summer), pp. 143-156.
LESTER, Tony, The Magwitch Story, London, New Generation Publishing, 2010.
LESTER, Tony, The Magwitch Effect, London, New Generation Publishing, 2010.
LESTER, Tony, The Magwitch Legacy, London, New Generation Publishing, 2011.
LETISSIER, Georges, “Les “suites” aux Grandes Espérances de Charles Dickens: variation; modulation; contradiction? (Acker; Ackroyd; Carey; Swift)”, «Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens», LV (2002), pp. 377-396.
MAACK, Annegret, “Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs. An Aussie Story?”, in GAILE, Andreas (ed.), Fabulating Beauty. Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2004, pp. 231-232.
MARRONI, Francesco (ed.), Great Expectations. Nel laboratorio di Charles Dickens, Roma, Aracne, 2006.
MECKIER, Jerome, “Distortion versus Revaluation: Three Twentieth-Century Responses to Victorian Fiction”, «Victorian Newsletter», LXXIII (1988 Spring), pp. 3-8.
MECKIER, Jerome, “Great Expectations: A Defense of a Second Ending”, «Studies in the Novel», XXV (1993), pp. 28-58.
MECKIER, Jerome, Dickens's Great Expectations: Misnar’s Pavilion Versus Cinderella, Lexingtone, Kentucky UP, 2002.
NOONAN, Michael, Magwitch, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1982.
ROSENBERG, Edgar, “Putting an End to Great Expectations”, in ROSENBERG, Edgar (ed.), Great Expectations. Authoritative Text. Backgrounds. Contexts. Criticism, New York, W. Northon and Company, 1999, pp. 491-527.
SAVU, Laura E., “The “Crooked Business” of Storytelling: Authorship and Cultural Revisionism in Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs”, «ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature», XXXVI (2005), pp. 127-163.
SEGRE, Cesare, “Intertestuale/Interdiscorsivo. Appunti per una fenomenologia delle fonti”, in DI GIROLAMO, Costanzo, PACCAGNELLA, Ivano (eds.), La parola ritrovata, Palermo, Sellerio, 1982, pp. 15-28.
SUCKSMITH, Harvey Peter, “Dickens and Bulwer-Lytton”, in SUCKSMITH, Harvey Peter (ed.), The Narrative Art of Charles Dickens. The Rhetoric of Sympathy and Irony in his Novels, Oxford, Oxford UP, 1970, pp. 110-119.
THIEME, John, “Turned Upside Down? Dickens’s Australia and Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs”, in THIEME, John (ed.), Postcolonial Con-Texts. Writing Back to the Canon, London-New York, Continuum, 2001, pp. 102-126.
WELLS, Herbert George, Kipps. The Story of a Simple Soul, (London, Macmillan, 1905), London, Everyman, 1993 (reprint).
David LEAN, Great Expectations, UK, 1946; Italian Translation Grandi speranze.
Published
2012-12-31
How to Cite
Cao, C. (2012). Le continuazioni di Great Expectations. Uno sguardo d’insieme. Rhesis. International Journal of Linguistics, Philology and Literature, 3(2), 22-43. https://doi.org/10.13125/rhesis/5517
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