Lucy Le-Guilcher

Rumer Godden (eBook, ePUB)

International and Intermodern Storyteller
Redaktion: Lassner, Phyllis B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published novels, biographies, children's books, and poetry, including Black Narcissus, The Lady and the Unicorn, A Fugue in Time, and The River. In the first collection devoted to this important transnational writer, the essays uncover Godden's significance as a writer who experimented with narrative and interrogated her own uncertain position as an author representing such nomadic Others as gypsies or taking up the displacements brought about by international conflict

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317060901
• Artikelnr.: 44876133

Autorenporträt

Lucy Le-Guilcher received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she wrote a thesis entitled Style and Women's Writing, 1940s and 1950s. In December 2007, she organized a centenary symposium on Rumer Godden, and has presented conference papers in Sydney and the UK. She is a regular reviewer for Women: A Cultural Review. Phyllis B. Lassner is Professor in the Crown Center for Jewish Studies, the Gender Studies, and Writing Programs at Northwestern University, USA. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen, British Women Writers of World War II, Colonial Strangers, Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust, and many articles on women writers. She serves as Co-President of The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture 1914-1945.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Lucy Le-Guilcher
Phyllis B. Lassner; Part I Rumer Godden's India; Chapter 1 The View from the Middle: Godden and her Literary Landscape
Mary Grover; Chapter 2 "Far More Remote Than It Actually Is": Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus and 1930s Mountain Writing
Mark Rawlinson; Chapter 3 In Search of Rumer Godden's India
Gayathri Prabhu; Chapter 4 Questions of "Mixed Race" in The Lady and the Unicorn and The Peacock Spring
Elizabeth Maslen; Part II Godden and British Culture; Chapter 5 An Experiment with Narrative? Rumer Godden's A Fugue in Time
Victoria Stewart; Chapter 6 A Child's Perspective: The Reconstruction of the Domestic Sphere in The Dolls' House and Impunity Jane
Lucy Le-Guilcher; Chapter 7 Imagining Gypsies: Growing up in Gypsy
Gypsy and The Diddakoi
Rod Mengham; Chapter 8 China Court: Rumer Godden's Epic of the English Novel
Phyllis Lassner; Part III Sexuality and Longing; Chapter 9 Childhood
Longing
Sexuality
Violence and Sacrifice in Rumer Godden's The River
An Episode of Sparrows and The Greengage Summer
Philip Tew; Chapter 10 Sweetness and Darkness: Realism in Rumer Godden's Novels
Tessa Hadley; Part IV Rumer Godden's Life and Career; Chapter 11 Rumer Godden: A Sense of Performance and Poetry
Anne Harvey; Chapter 12 "A Born Storyteller": Clips from the Interviews
Clare Jenkins; Chapter 13 "Sometimes": A Daughter's Reflections
Jane Murray Flutter;