Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines: Re-Reading its Craft and Concerns.

In this essay I examine Amitav Ghosh's craft and concerns in one of his finest novels, The Shadow Lines (1988). I further explore Ghosh's organisation of the diegetic elements, such as the novel's world and situation, events and characters, as well as the mode of telling and recounting the story, an...

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Publicado en:Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 69 - 83
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