Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theory From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the ways in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing. The eleven chapters present new scholarship on Bowen's inventiveness and unique writing style and its attachment to objects, covering topics such as queer adolescents, housekeeping, female fetishism, habit…mehr
Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theory From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the ways in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing. The eleven chapters present new scholarship on Bowen's inventiveness and unique writing style and its attachment to objects, covering topics such as queer adolescents, housekeeping, female fetishism, habit and new technologies such as the telephone. Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland. Patricia Juliana Smith is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University in New York.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland. She is the author of Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision (2017), Don't Look Now (2017), and Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival (2014), and editor of Memory and the Wars on Terror: Australian and British Perspectives (with Richard Gehrmann, 2017). Patricia Juliana Smith is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University in New York. She is the author of Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women's Fiction. She has edited books and published articles on a variety of topics, including literature, popular culture, cinema, opera, religion, modernism and queer studies.
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Acknowledgements Introduction Thinking in/about Bowen - Jessica Gildersleeve and Patricia Juliana Smith Chapter 1 How to Be Yourself - But Not Eccentric: Clothes, Style and Self in Bowen's Short Fiction - Aimee Gasston Chapter 2 Elizabeth Bowen: Surrealist - Keri Walsh Chapter 3 Elizabeth Bowen and the Pleasure of the Text - Jessica Gildersleeve Chapter 4 Obnoxiousness and Elizabeth Bowen's Queer Adolescents - Renée C. Hoogland Chapter 5 Tender Ties: Elizabeth Bowen and Habit - Ulrika Maude Chapter 6 'One is Somehow Suspended': Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield, and the Spaces in Between - Emma Short Chapter 7 'How Much of Nothing There Was': Trying (Not) to Understand Elizabeth Bowen - Damien Tarnopolsky Chapter 8 Bowen's Recesses: From Realism to Inter-Objectivity - Laurie Johnson Chapter 9 'Some Really Raging Peculiarity': Female Fetishism The Little Girls - Patricia Juliana Smith Chapter 10 Housekeeping and the Fiction of Subjectivity in Eva Trout - Jasmin Kelaita Chapter 11 Elizabeth Bowen on the Telephone - Andrew Bennett Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements Introduction Thinking in/about Bowen - Jessica Gildersleeve and Patricia Juliana Smith Chapter 1 How to Be Yourself - But Not Eccentric: Clothes, Style and Self in Bowen's Short Fiction - Aimee Gasston Chapter 2 Elizabeth Bowen: Surrealist - Keri Walsh Chapter 3 Elizabeth Bowen and the Pleasure of the Text - Jessica Gildersleeve Chapter 4 Obnoxiousness and Elizabeth Bowen's Queer Adolescents - Renée C. Hoogland Chapter 5 Tender Ties: Elizabeth Bowen and Habit - Ulrika Maude Chapter 6 'One is Somehow Suspended': Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield, and the Spaces in Between - Emma Short Chapter 7 'How Much of Nothing There Was': Trying (Not) to Understand Elizabeth Bowen - Damien Tarnopolsky Chapter 8 Bowen's Recesses: From Realism to Inter-Objectivity - Laurie Johnson Chapter 9 'Some Really Raging Peculiarity': Female Fetishism The Little Girls - Patricia Juliana Smith Chapter 10 Housekeeping and the Fiction of Subjectivity in Eva Trout - Jasmin Kelaita Chapter 11 Elizabeth Bowen on the Telephone - Andrew Bennett Notes on Contributors
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