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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 55
Page 4
... stories in Genesis present a patchwork of intel- lectual problems . In the first story women and men are both created in the image of God , ' male and female created he them ' ( Genesis 1 : 27 ) , but in the Eden narrative Eve is an ...
... stories in Genesis present a patchwork of intel- lectual problems . In the first story women and men are both created in the image of God , ' male and female created he them ' ( Genesis 1 : 27 ) , but in the Eden narrative Eve is an ...
Page 19
... story , the story of Genesis , to lay the sin even more firmly at the woman's door . She may have had the more convincing argu- ments at that moment . But she should never have left her husband . The original sin is Eve's and that sin ...
... story , the story of Genesis , to lay the sin even more firmly at the woman's door . She may have had the more convincing argu- ments at that moment . But she should never have left her husband . The original sin is Eve's and that sin ...
Page 51
... stories . We make up history as story , and until we do , it does not exist . But the past existed , and we are the proof of its passage . The past is written into us . Novelists are not often professional historians . So it is rare ...
... stories . We make up history as story , and until we do , it does not exist . But the past existed , and we are the proof of its passage . The past is written into us . Novelists are not often professional historians . So it is rare ...
Contents
FICTIONS AND HISTORIES | 36 |
HOFFMANNS UNCANNY | 52 |
SEXUALITY AND CONTEMPORARY | 65 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ackees Andrea Dworkin Angela Angela Carter Arbuthnot argues Atwood becomes black woman Bloody Chamber Brontë Caribbean Carter characters Charlotte Brontë classic Coetzee Coetzee's daughter death described desire Dickinson discourse Diski dream Edible Woman Eliot Emily English erotic essay fairy fairy tales fantasies father female feminine feminism feminist Frankenstein Freud Genesis girls Grace Nichols Haasse heroine hetero heterosexual historical fiction Hoffmann homosexual human husband ibid identity imagine Jeanne Duval Jenny Diski language lesbian literary lives Lizzie Borden London Lucy Snowe male Margaret Atwood marriage meanings memory metaphor Milton Miss Brodie Miss Jean Brodie Monster mother murder myths Nathanael nation never Nichols novel Paradise Lost passion plot poem political pornography radical rape reader role Sandman says sexual Shelley story structures suggestive takes tale things tion Tolstoy Tolstoy's tongue Villette voice women women's writing Woolf