Chiastic Trajectories of the Discourses of Love in Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Lighthousekeeping’

This paper maintains that Jeanette Winterson’s Lighthousekeeping (2004) articulates a double love discourse, shaped into a chiastic pattern. This is textualized in the two narratives at the heart of the novel, that are built around the crucial opposition light/darkness epitomized by the symbolic lig...

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