Writing on the Wall: Selected EssaysIn a varied selection of essays, Duncker takes on the classics of European literature - from the sexual politics of Milton, to an illuminating reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace as historical fiction. she also discusses contemporary women's writing, including Angela Carter's queer gothic, nationalism and Caribbean women's writing and the politics of heterosexuality in the work of Margaret Atwood and Jenny Diski. On a more personal note, the collection closes with examinations of the role of narrative, the problems of writing and the influences that have shaped Patricia Duncher's own work. |
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... Brodie set in Spark's novel are ' vastly informed on a lot of subjects irrelevant to the authorised curriculum ' ( MJB , p.5 ) , and among these figure ' the love lives of Charlotte Brontë and of Miss Brodie herself ' ( ibid . ) . The ...
... Brodie set in Spark's novel are ' vastly informed on a lot of subjects irrelevant to the authorised curriculum ' ( MJB , p.5 ) , and among these figure ' the love lives of Charlotte Brontë and of Miss Brodie herself ' ( ibid . ) . The ...
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... Brodie was based on the teacher into whose hands she fell at the age of eleven during the last two years at junior school in 1929 and 1930 : Miss Christina Kay . Spark herself , in her auto- biography , Curriculum Vitae , ( 1992 ) ...
... Brodie was based on the teacher into whose hands she fell at the age of eleven during the last two years at junior school in 1929 and 1930 : Miss Christina Kay . Spark herself , in her auto- biography , Curriculum Vitae , ( 1992 ) ...
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... Brodie's unconscious lesbianism . What she refuses to acknowledge is her own lesbianism . She wanted to be chosen by Miss Jean Brodie as her sexual substitute , and therefore , by proxy , as her lover . So she steals the place that is ...
... Brodie's unconscious lesbianism . What she refuses to acknowledge is her own lesbianism . She wanted to be chosen by Miss Jean Brodie as her sexual substitute , and therefore , by proxy , as her lover . So she steals the place that is ...
Contents
FICTIONS AND HISTORIES | 36 |
HOFFMANNS UNCANNY | 52 |
SEXUALITY AND CONTEMPORARY | 65 |
Copyright | |
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