Gothic and Quasi-Gothic Aesthetic and the Mise en Abîme in Two Examples of Gay Men’s Life Writing About AIDS

This comparison between Hervé Guibert’s autofiction and Mark Thompson’s memoir is focused on their use of the mise en abîme. Thompson’s unacknowledged use of the mise en abîme is symptomatic of the incoherence pervading his self-narrative. Thompson covers up moments of incoherence in his Gay Body—mo...

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Main Author: Tomasz BASIUK
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2014-12-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/4162