<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The essay analyses the concept of the past in Graham Swift’s “Out of this World”, a novel organized like a collection of revisited mental photographs. It associates the characters’ piecemeal accounts with their mental photographs of the past, evincing their vision upon their remembered past experiences and upon their perceived reality. The past is presented as mental photographs which turn into fragmented stories.</p></abstract>

The essay analyses the concept of the past in Graham Swift’s “Out of this World”, a novel organized like a collection of revisited mental photographs. It associates the characters’ piecemeal accounts with their mental photographs of the past, evincing their vision upon their remembered past experiences and upon their perceived reality. The past is presented as mental photographs which turn into fragmented stories.

Revisited Mental Photographs And The Past In Graham Swift’s <italic>Out Of This World</italic>. Reshaped Stories, Reshaped Memories

POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, FILS-DCLM

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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Revisited Mental Photographs And The Past In Graham Swift’s . Reshaped Stories, Reshaped Memories

The essay analyses the concept of the past in Graham Swift’s “Out of this World”, a novel organized like a collection of revisited mental photographs. It...

Revisited Mental Photographs And The Past In Graham Swift’s Out Of This World. Reshaped Stories, Reshaped Memories

Published Online: Nov 27, 2015

Page range: 82 - 87

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2015-0010

Keywords
different perspectives, mental photograph, the past, story

© 2015 Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Revisited Mental Photographs And The Past In Graham Swift’s Out Of This World. Reshaped Stories, Reshaped Memories

Published Online: Nov 27, 2015

Page range: 82 - 87

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2015-0010

Keywordsdifferent perspectives, mental photograph, the past, story

© 2015 Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
different perspectives, mental photograph, the past, story