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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... insists , have written the story without the presence of Byron , her husband and the bored literati of that wet summer in 1816 . The Sandman , composed in November 1815 , and Shelley's HOFFMANN'S UNCANNY REPLICANT FREUD, FRANKENSTEIN ...
... insists , have written the story without the presence of Byron , her husband and the bored literati of that wet summer in 1816 . The Sandman , composed in November 1815 , and Shelley's HOFFMANN'S UNCANNY REPLICANT FREUD, FRANKENSTEIN ...
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... insists that it is still the father's house although the father is long dead . Here Nathanael believes that he is secure . But , as Hoffmann , Shelley and Freud have argued in very different ways , we are not secure in the father's ...
... insists that it is still the father's house although the father is long dead . Here Nathanael believes that he is secure . But , as Hoffmann , Shelley and Freud have argued in very different ways , we are not secure in the father's ...
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... insists on the primacy of the scene . Sometimes her cast of characters are professional perform- ers as in Nights at the Circus ( 1984 ) or Wise Children ( 1992 ) . Sometimes they are accidentally caught up in the action of the play ...
... insists on the primacy of the scene . Sometimes her cast of characters are professional perform- ers as in Nights at the Circus ( 1984 ) or Wise Children ( 1992 ) . Sometimes they are accidentally caught up in the action of the play ...
Contents
FICTIONS AND HISTORIES | 36 |
HOFFMANNS UNCANNY | 52 |
SEXUALITY AND CONTEMPORARY | 65 |
Copyright | |
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