Byatt's Possession
Jeffers, Jennifer. "The White Bed of Desire in A.S. Byatt's Possession." Critique 43.2 (2002): 30 pars. HumanitiesAbs. NewFirstSearch. Lubbock Christian U Lib., Lubbock. 08 Nov. 2006 http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org.
White symbolizes the color of light, purity, and perfection. It is closely associated with the absolute (both the beginning and the end, as well as their union) and consequently is used at marriages, initiations, and death. Jennifer Jeffers contends that the "achromatic color white functions as a trope of desire and imbricates the pairs of lovers and the reader in a longing that can be fulfilled only through reading the white page" (1). Jeffers critically examines white as not only a trope of desire but also as a geographical destiny, an object, an image, and an ineffable experience (3).
Jeffers' research of white in art begins with the historical links between white and black and good and evil. Artists argue the theory of whether or not black and white......
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