El enmarque recalcitrante en “Her Letters”, de Kate Chopin
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https://doi.org/10.15359/rl.1-65.4Keywords:
literary theory, short story, framing, Kate ChopinAbstract
Short story theory in English allows for an analysis of certain particularities of the genre. This article addresses the story “Her Letters,” by Kate Chopin, from the perspective of textual framing: intratextual, extratextual, intertextual and circumtextual views. The recalcitrance resulting from the interplay of these frames produces a reading of the story from the subversive position of the female protagonist and the letters she leaves upon her death, letters that frame the binomial silence/word.
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