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Possessiona romance
CHAPTER 1•Function: to introduce the reader to the research of Roland about an hypothetical love story between Ash and a girl
•Focus: letters, Roland’s research
•Characters: Roland Mitchell, the librarian
•Settings: ten in the morning, one day in September 1986/ in the reading room of the London Library; at 11:00 Roland found the relevant passage in Vico/ at 11:15 Roland found the two drafts of the letters; after midday he returns home
•Language used: use of quotations (The Garden of Proserpina), many details, juxtaposition of a Victorian-like style and contemporany use of the language
CHAPTER 2
• Function: to explains Roland life, and his relationship between Val; to describe their house
• Focus: Roland’s life
• Characters: Roland, Val
• Settings: in the evening, at their house
• Language used: use of quotations (Ragnarok, a Robert graves’ Poem), detailed description
CHAPTER 3• Function: to introduce the reader the character of Christabel LaMotte.
• Focus: Roland’s research, desription of Blackadder and of the “Ash Factory”, dialogue between Roland and Blackadder, dialogue between Roland and Fergus
• Characters: Roland, Blackadder, Paola, Fergus
• Settings: Bloomsbury, the next morning/ British Museum, Ash Factory, in the afternoon
• Language used: use of quotations (Ragnarok/Gods,Men and Heros), a very detailed description, dialogue
CHAPTER 4• Function: to complete the explanation about Christabel LaMotte, to
introduce the character of Maud Bailey
• Focus: quotations
• Characters: Roland, Maud
• Settings: Lincoln, Lincoln University, Lincoln Library, Women’s resource centre, in the afternoon/ Maud’s house, in the evening
• Language used:use of quotations (Christabel LaMotte’s poems/ Blanche Glover’s diary/ The Glass Coffin), a description with many details, dialogue
CHAPTER 5
• Function: to explicate that the relationship between Ash and Christabel has real existed
• Focus: description of the wolds of Lincolnshire, finding of new letters
• Characters: Roland, Maud, Joan Bailey, George Bailey
• Settings: Wolds of Lincolnshire, in the morning/ Sir George Bailey’s house, Christabel LaMotte’s room
• Language used: description, use of quotations (R.H.Ash, The Incarcerated Sorceress/ LaMotte’s poems/ letters between Ash and LaMotte), dialogue
CHAPTER 6
• Function: to let the reader know about Cropper’ s research
• Focus: Cropper’s constant research of something new about Ash’ life
• Characters: Cropper, Mrs Daist Wapshott
• Settings: Mrs Daist Wapshott’s house
• Language used: Description, dialogue, use of quotations (Ash’s The Great Collector/ Ash’s letters/ Cropper’s writings)
CHAPTER 7
• Function: to make the reader clear about the relationship between Ash and his wife Ellen
• Focus: the letter that Roland received from Joan Bailey
• Characters: Beatrice Nest, Roland, Val, Euan MacIntyre, Cropper
• Settings: Beatrice’s house, before lunch/ Roland’s house, at lunch
• Language used: use of quotations (LaMotte’s poem/ Ellen’s journal), description, dialogue
CHAPTER 8
• Function: to enter in the middle of Roland and Maud’s research
• Focus: Fergus’ letters to maud, Leonora’s letter
• Characters: Maud, Roland, Joan Bailey
• Settings: G. Bailey’s House (in Seal Court)/ Maud’s home, in the evening/ G. Bailey’s House, the next day (all the day and all the night)
• Language used: Description, quotation (LaMotte’s poems/ Ash’s writings/ letters from Leonora and Fergus), dialogue
CHAPTER 9
• Function:
• Focus: LaMotte’s story “The Threshold”
• Characters:
• Settings:
• Language used: Narration
CHAPTER 10
• Function: to explain the reader the relationship between the two Victorian lovers
• Focus: letters between Ash and Christabel
• Characters: Randolph Henry Ash, Christabel LaMotte
• Settings:
• Language used:
CHAPTER 11
• Function:
• Focus: Ash’s poem “Swammerdam”
• Characters:
• Settings:
• Language used: poetry
CHAPTER 12
• Function: To create a sort of suspance
• Focus: Ash’s letters to Ellen, Ellen’s journal
• Characters: Roland, Maud, Val, Beatrice Nest, Fergus
• Settings:Bethany in Richmond, a sunny Day in april/ Val’s house/ Beatrice nest’s house/ 2 days after, in Museum Street
• Language used: use of quotations (LaMotte’s poem/Ash’s letters/Ellen’s journal)
CHAPTER 13
• Function: To create a parallelism between the 2 story lines
• Focus: Investigation on Ash and Lamotte’s possible journey in Yorkshire
• Characters: Maud, Roland
• Settings: Yorkshire, The Hoff Lunn Spout Hotel
• Language used: Quotations (Ash’s Ragnarok, Cropper’s account of the Yorkshire trip, Leonora's description of CLM's landscape), description, narration, dialogue.
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CHAPTER 14
• Function: To make more clear the parallelism between the 2 story lines
• Focus: Connection of the 2 story lines
• Characters: Maud, Roland
• Settings: Yorkshire, the next day, Boggle Hole
• Language used: Quotations (Ash’s Ask to Embla, Ash’s letter, Lamotte’s Melusina), dialogue, desription, narration.
CHAPTER 15
• Function: to explain the reader the relationship between Randolph and Christabel
• Focus: the journey in Yorkshire of the two Victorian lovers
• Characters: Randolph, Christabel
• Settings: Yorkshire
• Language used: description, narration, dialogue
CHAPTER 16
• Function:
• Focus: the proem of “the fairy melusine”
• Characters:
• Settings:
• Language used: poetry
CHAPTER 17
• Function: to introduce Fergus and Cropper’s intentions
• Focus: Fergus’ ideas
• Characters: Blackadder, Fergus, Val, Cropper
• Settings: “Ash’s factory” / Val’s home / Soho, after lunch
• Language used: dialogue, narration
CHAPTER 18
• Function: to explain the development of the plot
• Focus: dialogues
• Characters: Maud, Leonora, Blackadder, Sir George Bailey, Cropper, Paola, Byng
• Settings: Women’s Studies Resource Centre/ Maud’s home /Lincoln, the next day/ Ash’s factory
• Language used: dialogue, quotations (LaMotte’s poem/ Blanche’s writings/ letters of a French student of women’s writings), narration, description
CHAPTER 19
• Function: to make clear the period when Christabel lived in Brittany by her relatives
• Focus: Sabine’s Journal
• Characters: Maud, Roland
• Settings: on a ship to France, at night
• Language used: quotations (LaMotte’s “The City of Is”/Sabine’s Journal), dialogue, narration
CHAPTER 20
• Function: to create a sort of suspance (séance)
• Focus: Cropper’s effort to read Sir George’s letters regarding Ash and LaMotte
• Characters: Cropper, Sir George, Blackadder, Ms Patel, Leonora, Shushila, Ash, LaMotte
• Settings: a City church
• Language used: quotations (LaMotte’s poem/The Great Ventriloquist)
CHAPTER 21
• Function:
• Focus: quotation (Ash's Mummy Possest)
• Characters:
• Settings:
• Language used: poetry
CHAPTER 22
• Function: to make clear the new situation between Euan and Val
• Focus: Val and Euan’s relationship
• Characters: Val, Euan Maclntyre, Byng
• Settings: Newmarket
• Language used: narration, dialogue
CHAPTER 23
• Function: to make clear to the reader the development of things
• Focus: the relationship between Roland and Maud
• Characters: Roland, Maud, Blackadder, Leonora, Cropper
• Settings: Brittany
• Language used: dialogue, narration
CHAPTER 24
• Function: To make the reader clear that the letters in dispute belong to Maud
• Focus: the new discovery
• Characters: Maud, Roland, Val, Euan, Toby
• Settings: in Lincoln, October
• Language used: dialogue, narration
CHAPTER 25
• Function: to let the reader understand about the relationship between Randolph and Ellen at the end of Randolph’s life
• Focus: on Ellen Ash’s Journal and on the flashback
• Characters: Ellen, Ash, Blanche
• Settings: Ash’s home, 27° November 1889
• Language used: use of quotations (Ellen’s Journal/Cropper’s book/LaMotte’s letter), narration (flashback), dialogue
CHAPET 26
• Function: To explain the reader Roland’s thoughts ad intentions
• Focus: Roland’s feelings
• Characters: Roland (October), evening-night
• Settings: Val’s home (also in the garden)
• Language used: use of quotations (Ash’s “The Garden of Proserpina/ Blackadder’s letter), narration, dialogue, description
CHAPTER 27
• Function: to make clear who the letters belong to
• Focus: the discussion regarding the ownership of the letters
• Characters: Roland, Maud, Euan, Val, Blackadder, Leonora
• Settings: Beatrice Nest’s house
• Language used: use of quotations (an Ash’s poem), dialogue, narration, description
CHAPTER 28
• Function: to let the reader understand how the story between Ash and LaMotte ended
• Focus: content of the box funded in Ash’s grave
• Characters: Cropper, Hildebrand Ash, Roland, Maud, leonora, Blackadder, Nest
• Settings: Ash’s grave, 1 a.m., 15° October
• Language used: quotation ( LaMotte’s letter to Ash)
POSTSCRIPT 1868
• Function: to explain the reader that Randolph knew about the existence of his daughter May
• Focus: the meeting between Randolph and hid daughter
• Characters: Ash, Maia
• Settings: in a meadow, on a hot May day
• Language used: narration, description, dialogue