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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... fiction with their sources in the writer's lives . This strikes me as odd . Spark at once puts her finger on the ambiguity of this relationship between fiction and its sources . Who is the fiction and who is the character ? Miss Jean ...
... fiction with their sources in the writer's lives . This strikes me as odd . Spark at once puts her finger on the ambiguity of this relationship between fiction and its sources . Who is the fiction and who is the character ? Miss Jean ...
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Selected Essays Patricia Duncker. 3 . FICTIONS AND HISTORIES ON HELLA HAASSE'S EEN NIEUWER TESTAMENT AND TOLSTOY'S WAR AND PEACE Why should any writer choose to write historical fiction ? Nearly every classic fiction writer has written ...
Selected Essays Patricia Duncker. 3 . FICTIONS AND HISTORIES ON HELLA HAASSE'S EEN NIEUWER TESTAMENT AND TOLSTOY'S WAR AND PEACE Why should any writer choose to write historical fiction ? Nearly every classic fiction writer has written ...
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... fiction , especially fiction that deals with public events . We , the women , did not , could not , act directly within the public sphere . We were excluded from power . What we could do was influence individual men , often in the most ...
... fiction , especially fiction that deals with public events . We , the women , did not , could not , act directly within the public sphere . We were excluded from power . What we could do was influence individual men , often in the most ...
Contents
FICTIONS AND HISTORIES | 36 |
HOFFMANNS UNCANNY | 52 |
SEXUALITY AND CONTEMPORARY | 65 |
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