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, See for instance Reid (59) and Tibi (15)

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S. Lorre, , p.93, 2011.

, This emphasis on a suspensive state may be announced in a title like, Child

, My novels are not novels. I wanted to call them explorations

, A Note on the Russian War

, Mark Williams makes a similar point about Frame's "politics": "The 'politics' of her fiction do not cohere into a singular position

, I am using the world "closure" in Herrnstein Smith's restrictive sense, excluding anti-closural endings that are in fact open ones

, the ending of a novel clearly recalls the beginning in language, in situation, in the groupings of characters, or in several of these ways, circularity may be said to control the ending

, For a postcolonial reading of this story, see Lorre, pp.255-257, 2007.

, Frame] focuses on the false virtue of religious people who claim to have a deeper understanding of the human soul than others, but who side with mockery when it comes to social bonding, y ending the story on Mrs Michael's words

, Emphasis mine. Also, as Claire Bazin reminds us, "they" is Benveniste's "non-person, 201114.

, par la fin' signifie ouvrir la narration sur le dénouement de l'histoire racontée, pour reprendre ensuite le fil chronologique des événements en remontant au début

, Vanessa Guignery identifies this as "a recurring device in Frame's fiction": "building up a world or a story with recognizable components such as characters, place and action

, Closure and Happy Endings in Janet Frame's The Lagoon and Other Stories Miranda, vol.8, 2013.