MAY SINCLAIR AND HER ILLUSTRATORS
THE LIMITS OF CO-AUTHORSHIP
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https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2023.15.13Keywords:
May Sinclair, Illustrations, Painting, Co-authorship, Gender RepresentationAbstract
Before the advent of visual media, illustrations were striving to show in images what the written text intended to tell in words. In addition to their semiotic function as highlighting devices for particular contexts and characters’ attitudes in the work of fiction, illustrations exude aesthetic feelings and states of mind which may at times even interfere with the meaning of the illustrated text. The present paper intends to negotiate the effects of the novelist/illustrator interactions on the readers’ reception of the works of May Sinclair, especially in the context of the representation of gender relations. The topic of collaboration will mainly be analysed within Sinclair’s text, as this interaction is itself the subject matter in some of her major works.
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