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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... writing . What is peculiarly delightful about Stevie Smith's poet , whom she draws wearing a jaunty feathered cap ... Writing is an activity . Mrs Arbuthnot was an author who had writer's block . But we should understand writer's block ...
... writing . What is peculiarly delightful about Stevie Smith's poet , whom she draws wearing a jaunty feathered cap ... Writing is an activity . Mrs Arbuthnot was an author who had writer's block . But we should understand writer's block ...
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... writing ' I ' could no longer exist . Here is part of her Diary entry for Sunday , 9 June 1940 . I don't want to go to bed at midday : this refers to the garage . What we dread ... WRITING ON THE WALL I want to begin 186 WRITING ON THE WALL.
... writing ' I ' could no longer exist . Here is part of her Diary entry for Sunday , 9 June 1940 . I don't want to go to bed at midday : this refers to the garage . What we dread ... WRITING ON THE WALL I want to begin 186 WRITING ON THE WALL.
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... writing . Writing is : the science of the vari- ous blisses of language , its Karma Sutra ( this science has but one treatise ; writing itself ) . " Here is the borderline text . The text that addresses writing and , beautiful and ...
... writing . Writing is : the science of the vari- ous blisses of language , its Karma Sutra ( this science has but one treatise ; writing itself ) . " Here is the borderline text . The text that addresses writing and , beautiful and ...
Contents
FICTIONS AND HISTORIES | 36 |
HOFFMANNS UNCANNY | 52 |
SEXUALITY AND CONTEMPORARY | 65 |
Copyright | |
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