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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... letters . The danger was that she might stop writing . Elizabeth Barrett Browning worried that she was more famous than her husband . This anxiety affected her ability to write . Virginia Woolf suffered from overheated brains and often ...
... letters . The danger was that she might stop writing . Elizabeth Barrett Browning worried that she was more famous than her husband . This anxiety affected her ability to write . Virginia Woolf suffered from overheated brains and often ...
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... letter to the writing on the wall , Celan's compressed elliptical texts . Derrida stands before them . And describes ... letters to the text , its writers and readers , in Le Plaisir du texte ( 1973 ) . In this text Barthes occupies both ...
... letter to the writing on the wall , Celan's compressed elliptical texts . Derrida stands before them . And describes ... letters to the text , its writers and readers , in Le Plaisir du texte ( 1973 ) . In this text Barthes occupies both ...
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... letters addressed to a ' Master ' — ' Cher Maître ' - presumed to be addressed to Michel Foucault . They were careful fair - copied drafts . Unsent . A letter is one of the most intimate forms of writing which links the writer and the ...
... letters addressed to a ' Master ' — ' Cher Maître ' - presumed to be addressed to Michel Foucault . They were careful fair - copied drafts . Unsent . A letter is one of the most intimate forms of writing which links the writer and the ...
Contents
FICTIONS AND HISTORIES | 36 |
HOFFMANNS UNCANNY | 52 |
SEXUALITY AND CONTEMPORARY | 65 |
Copyright | |
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