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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... lives of Charlotte Brontė and of Miss Brodie herself ' ( ibid . ) . The authors of Villette and of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie were both intrigued by sexual knowledge of an unauthorised nature . Lucy Snowe and Miss Jean Brodie are ...
... lives of Charlotte Brontė and of Miss Brodie herself ' ( ibid . ) . The authors of Villette and of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie were both intrigued by sexual knowledge of an unauthorised nature . Lucy Snowe and Miss Jean Brodie are ...
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... lives . Christina Kay was already a character , waiting to be written . Writers never use random elements in their lives as sources . They pick on something or someone who is already becoming fiction . Teaching has a great deal in ...
... lives . Christina Kay was already a character , waiting to be written . Writers never use random elements in their lives as sources . They pick on something or someone who is already becoming fiction . Teaching has a great deal in ...
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... lives . These private texts , diaries , journals , letters , from which writers ' lives are made , are always of interest to us , not because writer's lives are generally action- packed - Mrs Arbuthnot appears to have lived very quietly ...
... lives . These private texts , diaries , journals , letters , from which writers ' lives are made , are always of interest to us , not because writer's lives are generally action- packed - Mrs Arbuthnot appears to have lived very quietly ...
Contents
FICTIONS AND HISTORIES | 36 |
HOFFMANNS UNCANNY | 52 |
SEXUALITY AND CONTEMPORARY | 65 |
Copyright | |
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