Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys' Reading of Jane Eyre

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Velayat University, Iranshar, Iran.

2 Master of Arts in English Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

Abstract

Generally, when studying texts, reference to other texts is obligatory and this is what intertextuality and the interconnectedness of texts means. One example is Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, influenced by Bronte’s Jane Eyre, though Rhys with her twentieth century point of view has created a new world. David Herman knows the creation of this new world as the result of Rhys’ use of “weighing” technique based on which the occurrences of Jane Eyre’s exist in Wide Sargasso Sea, but Rhys’ point of view for evaluating the occurrences differs and the result becomes Wide Sargasso Sea. Wolfgang Iser believes that, while reading a literary text, the reader provides the parts not provided by the author. The present article, by referring to Rhys’ reading of Jane Eyre and her providing needed information not brought by the author, attends to the creation of Wide Sargasso Sea and Rhys’s weighing of Jane Eyre’s occurrences.

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Research in Contemporary World Literature
Volume 27, Issue 1
August 2022
Pages 378-404

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