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Dangerous Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Dangerous Writing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

This book examines the literary construction of personal identity through autobiographical narratives by three significant writers analysed together for the first time: the Scottish Willa Muir (1890-1970), the Canadian Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), and the New Zealander Janet Frame (1924-2004). These apparently dissimilar authors suffered not only geographical, but also political marginality: they were women from the working-class or struggling middle-class, striving to be considered as professional writers, and emerging from countries that might be felt to be under the shadows of economic and political world powers such as England and the United States. During their lifetimes, they exerted...

Ah, What Is It? ‒ That I Heard
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Ah, What Is It? ‒ That I Heard

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

The spirit of the narrative is mankind’s reflexive consciousness, or poetic genius ‒ our unique access to ourselves, our desperate endeavour “to be REAL”. It brings to light the dark unknown which is the zest of our lives; it gives shape to the tremor of our inner souls ‒ otherwise nearly imperceptible. “Ah, what is it? ‒ that I heard”, Katherine Mansfield wondered throughout her whole life and writings ‒ poems and stories, letters and notebooks. Through the metamorphic movement of her highly sensitive, perceptive mind, she highlights the deep ambivalence of light and dark, mirth and awe, fear and longing which is the keen feature of our naked existence. She sketches her ep...

Janet Frame in Focus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Janet Frame in Focus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-14
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  • Publisher: McFarland

New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924-2004) during her lifetime published 11 novels, three collections of short stories, a volume of poetry and a children's book. The details of her life--her tragic early years, her confinement in a psychiatric hospital and her miraculous reprieve--overshadow her work and she remains largely neglected by scholars. These essays focus on Frame's autobiography, short stories and novels. Contributors from around the world explore a range of topics, including her mother's Christadelphian faith, her relationships with two 20th century icons (William Theophilus Brown and John Money), and a view of Frame in the context of trauma studies. Two of the essays were presented at the 2014 Northeast Modern Language Association convention.

The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeare’s History Plays
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeare’s History Plays

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-10
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

Early modern kings adopted a new style of government, Realpolitik, as spelled out in Machiavelli’s writings. Tudor monarchs, well aware of their questionable right to the throne, posed as great dissimulators, similarly to the modern prince who “must learn from the fox and the lion”. This book paints a portrait of a successful politician according to early modern standards. Kingship is no longer understood as a divinely ordained institution, but is defined as goal-oriented policy-making, relying on conscious acting and the theatrical display of power. The volume offers an intriguing discussion on kingship in pragmatic terms, as the strategic face-saving behaviour of Shakespeare’s king...

Life Writing and the End of Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Life Writing and the End of Empire

"Exploring how legacies of British colonialism have shaped modern life narrative, this book offers comparative studies of four white life writers - Penelope Lively, J. G. Ballard, Doris Lessing and Janet Frame - who wrote and rewrote their childhoods in colonies, international settlements, and protectorates of the British Empire across numerous autobiographical texts. By drawing on their life writings, frequently side-lined for their fiction, Emma Parker illuminates hitherto unrecognized connections between these authors after they travelled from their respective childhood homes in Egypt (Lively), Shanghai (Ballard), Southern Rhodesia (Lessing) and New Zealand (Frame), arriving in London acr...

Literature along the Lines of Flight
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Literature along the Lines of Flight

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-15
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

This book presents new readings of D.H. Lawrence’s later novels from the perspective of established critical theory and contemporary thought: a specific critical theory or critical perspective is selected and applied to each novel in order to present particular interpretations of each. Although remaining faithful to one’s personal desires without being unduly concerned with the outside world is considered a Lawrentian virtue, I would like to show another Lawrence who was sensitive enough to the outside world and to the social discourses of his time to employ elements of them in his novels, although subtly, and with critical shifts and displacements. Lawrence is a writer who continually draws lines of flight to escape from capitalist societies that ascribe essential value and power to money.

In the Picture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

In the Picture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-11-15
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

Evelyn Waugh at war is an irresistibly fascinating subject, as are his war novels and diaries. Drawn to units offering the greatest danger, but often frustrated in his search for action, Waugh served in multiple regiments, saw battle on Crete and worked behind the lines in occupied Croatia. In the Picture traces Waugh’s experiences, both vivid and mundane, with a completeness never before attempted and shows how they come alive in Sword of Honour. It also illuminates the brief hints within the narrative of key events of the war, while highlighting its strategic direction. Waugh’s individualistic relationships with superiors, subordinates and public opinion led to blame and controversy. Working mainly from archival sources, In the Picture examines Waugh’s fitness to be an officer, his conduct on Crete, his being sacked from the Special Service Brigade, and his service in Croatia. New, very surprising discoveries dispel entrenched myths.

Spiegelbeeld en schaduwspel
  • Language: nl
  • Pages: 327

Spiegelbeeld en schaduwspel

Het oeuvre van Hella S. Haasse (1918-2011) is groots, omvangrijk en enorm gevarieerd. Maar wie kent de essays van Haasse over de schrijvende vrouw? Waarom schreef ze zo vaak over ontheemding? Wat bedoelde ze als ze het over haar â daimoonâ had? Waarom zijn veel huwelijken in Haasses romans en verhalen problematisch? Margot Dijkgraaf maakte in 1989 kennis met de schrijfster en voerde de laatste tien jaar van Haasses leven regelmatig gesprekken met haar over haar werk. In Spiegelbeeld en schaduwspel bespreekt ze Haasses belangrijkste themaâ s en laat ze de schrijfster zelf aan het woord. Het boek is daarmee niet alleen een rijk overzicht van een monumentaal oeuvre, maar ook een persoonlijk portret van een van de grootste auteurs uit de Nederlandstalige literatuur.

Massenwahntheorie und Friedenspoetik
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 290

Massenwahntheorie und Friedenspoetik

Der radikale Zivilisationsbruch, die Zukunft und Verteidigung der Demokratie, der Kampf gegen Totalitarismus und Massenwahn, der Einsatz für Menschenrechte sowie das utopische Potential der Literatur beschäftigten den jüdischen, in die USA emigrierten Schriftsteller und Intellektuellen Hermann Broch (1886-1951). Der Aktualität seines Denkens im Kontext einer interdisziplinären Friedens- und Demokratieforschung geht der vorliegende Band nach.

Diálogos culturales en la literatura iberoamericana
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 1860

Diálogos culturales en la literatura iberoamericana

En Diálogos culturales en la literatura iberoamericana presentamos alrededor de ciento cincuenta trabajos que analizan temas de Literatura Hispanoamericana y Brasileña, realizados, tanto por profesores, creadores o críticos de reconocido prestigio de importantes centros de investigación y universidades de Estados Unidos, Europa y otros lugares del mundo, como por jóvenes académicos que empiezan a sobresalir en ambas disciplinas. Los estudios tratan de contactos culturales e influencias, con diferentes enfoques, dentro del marco lingüístico hispano-luso, en un amplio espacio de tiempo que abarca desde el período colonial de sus literaturas hasta nuestros días, cuando se hace más ne...