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"The Happy Family Is a Myth for Many": Dysfunctional Families and Literary Parentage in Caryl Phillips' The Lost Child
Leclercq, Emma 
Promotor(s) :
Ledent, Bénédicte
Date of defense : 13-Jun-2019/21-Jun-2019 • Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/6647
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| Title : | "The Happy Family Is a Myth for Many": Dysfunctional Families and Literary Parentage in Caryl Phillips' The Lost Child |
| Author : | Leclercq, Emma
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| Date of defense : | 13-Jun-2019/21-Jun-2019 |
| Advisor(s) : | Ledent, Bénédicte
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| Committee's member(s) : | Tunca, Daria
Delrez, Marc
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| Language : | English |
| Number of pages : | 97 |
| Keywords : | [fr] Caryl Phillips [fr] The Lost Child [fr] Families [fr] Literary parentage [fr] Intertextuality [fr] Psychoanalysis |
| Discipline(s) : | Arts & humanities > Literature |
| Institution(s) : | Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique |
| Degree: | Master en langues et lettres modernes, orientation générale |
| Faculty: | Master thesis of the Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres |
Abstract
[fr] This paper focuses on the family patterns presented in Caryl Phillips' “The Lost Child”. Various psychoanalytical theories are used to analyse six processes occurring in the novel and a final chapter focuses on the family metaphor, literary parentage, intertextuality and identity.
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