Studies in Short Fiction, January 1st, 1995
Women's literature has offered an alternative to linear narrative in which the story moves according to a non-linear pattern of events. These patterns, cyclical and monumental, were used along with linear sequencing in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Country of Pointed Firs.' The various characters are made to narrate their own stories using these variants of chronological perspective, where the monumental concept of time eventually allows them to transcend their own narratives by placing them in a timeless context.
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