Abstract
Abstract Janice Galloway’s ‘Scenes from the Life’ are a set of five pieces collected in Blood (1991), her first book of stories. As in the case of the rest of her production, these stories are highly experimental texts that convey the author’s criticism of dominant patriarchal ideology by rehearsing different combinations of narrative, intertextual and intermedial elements, which entail different modalities of intratextual witnesses of the action and potential surrogates of the reader. Resorting to Irina O. Rajewsky’s concepts of ‘intertextual reference’ and ‘intermedial reference’ as analytical tools, this article reorders the otherwise random appearance and numbering of the five pieces by establishing a logical line of progression derived from the different proportions of intertextual and intermedial referencing that each of the text contains. Though they remain stories, ‘Scenes from the Life’ are good examples of the author’s poetics of liminality, which, according to recent commentators, the short story comes closer to than any other literary genre.
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