Elizabeth Bowen : A Reputation in Writing


Renee Carine. Hoogland
Bok Engelsk 1994 · Electronic books.
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New York : : NYU Press, , 1994.
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1 online resource (392 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Elizabeth Bowen-A Story of Sorts; 2 Technologies of Female Adolescence; The Ideological Timespace of The Last September (1929); The Interpellation of the Adolescent; 3 Authoring Sexual Identities; Sexual Position(ing)s; Interpretation, Transference, and Authorial Control; 4 Histories of Narrative Desire; The Fictitious Reality of The Heat of the Day (1949); The Historical Inscription of the Self; 5 The Discourse of Suspension; Heterosexual Materials; Discourse in Crisis; 6 Subtexts of Psychosexuality. - The Inscription of Creation in Eva Trout (1969)(Pre)oedipal Love and the Symbolic Mother; 7 Sexual/Textual Transgressions; Scriptural Encodings; The Mother's Tongue and Female Authorship; 8 From Marginality to Ex-centricity; (Post)modernist Identifications; Sexual In/Difference; Ex-centric Interpellations; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific outputten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial body of non- fictionBowen is a noteworthy novelist. The radical quality of her work, however, renders her an exceptional one. Surfacing in both subject matter and style, her fictions harbor a subversive potential which has hitherto gone unnoticed. Using a wide range of critical theories-from semiotics to psychoanalysis, from narratology to decon
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0814735010. - 0814735118

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