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Article: The Double Voice of Metaphor: A. S. Byatt's "Morpho Eugenia".
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- Twentieth Century Literature
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- December 22, 1999
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Analogy is a slippery tool.
A. S. Byatt (100)
The double voice of postmodern fiction presents a challenge because it requires that we question the way we read and interpret not only postmodern literature but also literature as a whole. [1] This doubleness is particularly noticeable in works that openly display their affiliation with generic conventions or older works, such as J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986), which rewrites Robinson Crusoe, Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor (1985), which is structured like a detective story, or A. S. Byatt's Possession (1990), Lindsay Clarke's The Chymical Wedding (1989), John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), and Susan ...