"The World Goes On": Narrative Structure and the Sonnet in Vikram Seth's "The Golden Gate"

Authors

Jay Curlin, Ouachita Baptist UniversityFollow

Department

English

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1996

Abstract

This essay examines the structure of Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, arguing that the complexity of the narrative becomes remarkably clare when the novel is viewed as mirroring the structural divisions of an Onegin Sonnet.

Publication Title

Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association

Publisher Statement

Copyright 1996, Arkansas Philological Association, Published by the University of Central Arkansas Press. For more information visit https://arkansasphilological.com/about/.

Recommended Citation

Curlin, Jay, ""The World Goes On": Narrative Structure and the Sonnet in Vikram Seth's "The Golden Gate"" (1996). Articles. 244.
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/articles/244