use to me if the missing parts of the author could be found in the spaces, gaps and
places within their corpus of work.
Through the textual research, I also hoped to determine if it was possible in
a narrative, somehow to locate a third identity, one that represents the reader’s
perspective, one that may seemingly even be in conflict with the author’s
perspective, intention and motivation, perhaps an identity that suggested an interior
dialogue within the author’s psyche. These issues are analysed in Section I I I where
the empirical data and textual research will be discussed in the light of the broad
issues raised in Chapter 2, together with extensive reading on related topics and the
results of informal conversations with relevant scholars and readers in the field.
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