Wedding quilts should have borders of continuous vines or ribbon patterns because a broken border means the marriage will be broken too. I must be an awful person because my first thought here was, if someone didn’t like who their child was marrying, they could give the couple a quilt wi...
(In Search of Lost Time). The discussion proposes a case study for the use of allomotifs, or interchangeable motifs, to understand symbolic patterns in Proust’s literary work. The paper lays bare a widespread metaphorical field in wondertales, then follows its complications in the Proustian ...