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Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
2 055 kr
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This Companion considers how ideas of place and space were articulated in prose, poetry and plays by women in the interwar period. By examining the works of canonical and non-canonical Anglophone authors from 1918–1939, it provides a wide-ranging discussion of women’s roles in society and the issues they faced in the time between two devastating global conflicts. In particular, it interrogates the ways in which women writers imagined community and narrated their domestic, local, national and international geographies in fiction, in verse and on the stage. Its twenty-six chapters take a variety of methodological approaches, including archival research, theoretical discussion, close reading and in-depth case studies, and draw on a number of academic fields, spanning across literary history, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and sociology. The contributors’ detailed explorations of interwar modernist literature enable a deeper appreciation of the everyday concerns of women in the aftermath of one world war and the years leading up to the next, especially what they thought about gender, borders, migration and the concept of ‘home’.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
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Elizabeth Bowen was a prolific writer; her publishing career spanned five decades and during this time she wrote ten novels, over one hundred short stories and countless reviews and journal articles. While earlier novels are now acknowledged as Modernist texts, her later novels can be read through the lens of postmodernism; they can be considered variously as romantic fiction, marriage novels, war time spy thrillers and psychological drama but, throughout her novels, she consistently questioned notions of identity, sexuality and the loss of innocence. A World of Lost Innocence: The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen offers a reading of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction which focuses specifically on this loss, foregrounding the psychological conflicts experienced by her protagonists. It examines the subject not only across the range of her fiction, but also in relation to her unfolding narrative structures through a chronologically based discussion of her novels and selected short stories, interwoven with biographical information and drawing on unpublished letters. This book investigates the dominant kinds of innocence that Bowen represents throughout her fiction: the innocence attributed to childhood, sexual innocence and sexual morality, and political innocence, and argues that the transition from innocence to experience plays an important role in the epistemological journey faced both by Bowen's characters and her readers.