Abstract
Jennifer Johnston's novels have variously been analysed in terms of the Kiinstlerroman genre. But, as the present study seeks to show, there are a number of reasons why such an analysis should be viewed with considerable reservations. Further, critics have so far been at pains to establish Mrs Johnston as among the most consummate of fiction writers, an appraisal that is difficult to accept if one takes into account the glaring deficiencies in her œuvre : too many of her novels rely on the same compositional pattern and concentrate on the theme of initiation ; moreover, they betray shortcomings in narrative technique as well as an unsure hand at metonymy ; and they show a propensity in Johnston for simply overdoing the coincidences in her plots and burdening her narrative accounts with intolerably melodramatic elements.
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