The idees of March: a roman novel
The idees of March: a roman novel
Author(s): Mary KoutsoudakiSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: Roman novel; The Idees of March; narrative technique;
Summary/Abstract: The present article continues the analysis of mythological and historicals motives used by Thornton Wilder in his postwar novel - The Ides of March. As literary technique, for gallery of portraits of his first Roman novel, symmetrically delineated in an episodic pattern, is replaced by a narrative device that the author employs quite successfully for the first time- a variant of epistolary, form supplemented by historians' accounts.
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 138-159
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English