Setara Pracha

The Pathology of Desire in Daphne du Maurier's Short Stories

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Produktbeschreibung

The book addresses critical omissions in du Maurier studies by carefully examining her less well-known shorter fiction. The analysis covers nine stories chosen to illustrate how du Maurier employs the diseased, disabled, and maimed human form as a recurrent symbol for social, political, and domestic misalignment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781666907179
• ISBN-10: 1666907170
• Artikelnr.: 65697352

Autorenporträt

Setara Pracha is senior research fellow and lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Buckingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Section I: The Corpus
Introduction: Corporeality: The Conceptual Skeleton
Chapter One: 'The critics will never forgive you for writing Rebecca':
Repositioning Daphne du Maurier and an Anatomy of the Short Story
Collections
Section II: The Dismembered Self
Chapter Two: 'Split Second' [head] (1980)
Chapter Three: 'The Blue Lenses' [eyes] (1952)
Chapter Four: 'The Lordly Ones' [tongue] (1959)
Chapter Five: 'Monte Verità' [breasts/ yoni] (1952)
Chapter Six: 'The Apple Tree' [limbs] (1952)
Chapter Seven: 'The Alibi' [phallus] (1959)
Chapter Eight: 'The Little Photographer' [feet] (1952)
Chapter Nine: 'The Doll' [body] (1937, 2011)
Section III: A Pathology of Desire
Chapter Ten: Reconstructive Surgery
Appendix: The Bare Bones
Bibliography
About the Author