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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... mind to all other due conversation inaccessible.9 It is disturbing , but not surprising that Milton's idea of marriage in this passage is coercive . Women's bodies are there to be pene- trated , preferably with their consent , their minds ...
... mind to all other due conversation inaccessible.9 It is disturbing , but not surprising that Milton's idea of marriage in this passage is coercive . Women's bodies are there to be pene- trated , preferably with their consent , their minds ...
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... mind . Why are we watching this rather than that ? If description is tied to a particular point of view you know why- and the text then pushes outwards , into the world , making the world , and inwards , into the mind of the person ...
... mind . Why are we watching this rather than that ? If description is tied to a particular point of view you know why- and the text then pushes outwards , into the world , making the world , and inwards , into the mind of the person ...
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... mind , because that is one of the central preoccupations of her tale . And of Hoffmann's Sandman . Nathanael's dreams and premonitions lead him to imagine his own death and damnation at the hands of the advocate Coppelius in ' a circle ...
... mind , because that is one of the central preoccupations of her tale . And of Hoffmann's Sandman . Nathanael's dreams and premonitions lead him to imagine his own death and damnation at the hands of the advocate Coppelius in ' a circle ...
Contents
FICTIONS AND HISTORIES | 36 |
HOFFMANNS UNCANNY | 52 |
SEXUALITY AND CONTEMPORARY | 65 |
Copyright | |
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