Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea as a Hypertext of Bronte's Jane Eyre

Hypertextuality provides a comprehensive system of analyzing any relationship between literary texts. It is a generic architext which encompasses certain genres such as pastiche, parody, and travesty. The main concern of this book is parody. It aims to show how a twentieth-century literary work like Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea can be related to and a parody of Charlotte Bronte's nineteenth-century novel Jane Eyre. The book considers the generic study of both novels focusing on the concept of bildungsroman and analysis of the dream texts, and also character analysis of Rochester. Concequently, the research shows how some elements in Jane Eyre are developed into parodic elements in Wide Sargasso Sea.This book sheds more light on the post-modern concept of Hypertextuality to help the reader comprehend it better.

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Nazila Herischian was born in 1973. She studied English Literature at Tabriz Azad University and gratuated with an BA in 2005, and MA in 2007. She is working as a lecturer in Tabriz Azad University and also a supervisor in an English Language Center.