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Hooked on Classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 years on

Andermahr, S. (2014) Hooked on Classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 years on. In: Allen, N. and Simmons, D. (eds.) Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon: From Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith :. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. pp. 250-265.

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Abstract:
This chapter sets out to to reassess the critical reception of Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 years after its initial publication. It argues that the text operates on many different levels, circulating as a much loved comic novel of growing up, as teaching material, as an aspect of popular/literary culture, and as part of Winterson’s own mythobiography. Its success may be attributed to the ways in which the narrative ‘hooks’ itself onto classic texts, which circulate in the culture’s collective unconscious. This chapter will combine these emphases and consider the novel as a literary classic that both subverts the canon and inscribes the tradition in the process of reworking autobiography as art. It will draw on recent interviews with Winterson to suggest that the novel represents a ‘cover story’ that conceals the sense of loss intrinsic to Winterson’s origin story.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Jeanette Winterson, autobiographical fiction, canon, intertextuality, cover stories
Creators:
Andermahr, S.
Editors:
Allen, N. and Simmons, D.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Date:
1 January 2014
Date Type:
Publication
Page Range:
pp. 250-265
Title of Book:
Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon: From Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith :
Number:
1st
Place of Publication:
Basingstoke
Number of Pages:
16
Language:
English
ISBN:
978-1-137-36600-9
DOI:
10.1057/9781137366016
Status:
Published / Disseminated
Refereed:
Yes
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