Plotting and characterisation in Sophie Hannah’sThe Other Half Lives: a cognitive stylistic approach

Author:

Gregoriou Christiana1

Affiliation:

1. School of English, University of Leeds , Leeds , UK

Abstract

Abstract(Sophie Hannah’s. 2009.The Other Half Lives. London: Hodder).The Other Half Livesboth complies with, and departs from, the crime fiction formula or text schema. It features a mystery the specifics of which are unravelled non-chronologically, while its numerous crimes and non-ideal criminals and victims disrupt readers’ world schemas and help enable its surprising effects. Not unlike such fiction, the story’s early happenings feature late in the telling, while many happenings are given from different character perspectives. Both of these help unsettle narrative perspective, and generate suspense, mystery, and readers’ later repairing and replacing of frames. Focalisation and the working and reworking of killing characters’ early depiction are techniques also enabling foreshadowing and misdirection, for readers’ sympathies and prejudices to be manipulated accordingly, and for surprise revelations to prove effective, even when a surprise ending is – given the nature of this genre – only to be expected.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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