Possession a romance. CHAPTER 1 Function: to introduce the reader to the research of Roland about an hypothetical love story between Ash and a girl Focus:

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


• 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:


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


• 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:


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


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


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

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