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Author | : Rebecca K. Hahn |
Publisher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2020-07-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3823393898 |
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Side-Stepping Normativity: Selected Short Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner discusses Sylvia Townsend Warner's highly innovative narrative style, which does not conform to conventional modernist or postmodernist standards, and explores how Warner's short stories shift to off-centre positions. Side-Stepping Normativity further outlines the way in which Warner constantly challenges the categories we apply to classify our surroundings and analyses how Warner succeeds in creating queer, that is, non-heteronormative as well strange and peculiar stories without explicitly opposing the so-called norms of her time. In this, Side-Stepping Normativity joins a vibrant conversation in queer studies which revolves around the question how critics can approach literary texts from a non-antagonistic position. Rather than focussing on the role of the critic, however, this thesis shows that Warner's texts have long achieved what queer theorists seek to achieve on an analytical level.
Author | : Rebecca Hahn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020-06 |
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ISBN | : 9783823383895 |
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Author | : Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Download Lolly Willowes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this delightful and witty novel, Laura Willowes rebels against pressure to be the perfect 'maiden aunt'. Not interested in men or the rushed life of London, Laura is forced to move there from her beloved countryside after the death of her father. Her relatives like dead things; they treasure stuffed animals and parade possible husbands ('suitable and likely undertakers', as Laura calls them) in front of Miss Willowes. Finally, Laura strikes out for the countryside on her own, selling her soul to an affable but rather simple-minded devil, and becomes a witch. First written in the 1920s, this book is timely and entertaining. It was the first selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926.
Author | : Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2011-06-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590174062 |
Download Summer Will Show Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In revolutionary Paris, a disaffected Victorian wife becomes enraptured by her husband’s mistress—a “brilliantly entertaining” historical fiction novel that was “far ahead of its time” (Guardian). “One of the great under-read British novelists of the 20th century . . . my favorite of her novels.” —Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory fashion. Then tragedy strikes: the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, arriving just in time for the revolution of 1848. Before long she has formed the unlikeliest of close relations with Minna, her husband’s sometime mistress, whose dramatic recitations, based on her hair-raising childhood in czarist Russia, electrify audiences in drawing rooms and on the street alike. Minna, “magnanimous and unscrupulous, fickle, ardent, and interfering,” leads Sophia on a wild adventure through bohemian and revolutionary Paris, in a story that reaches an unforgettable conclusion amidst the bullets, bloodshed, and hope of the barricades. Sylvia Townsend Warner was one of the most original and inventive of twentieth-century English novelists. At once an adventure story, a love story, and a novel of ideas, Summer Will Show is a brilliant reimagining of the possibilities of historical fiction.
Author | : Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Publisher | : Handheld Classics |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2018-10-31 |
Genre | : Fairies |
ISBN | : 9781999944810 |
Download Kingdoms of Elfin Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sylvia Townsend Warner's final collection of short stories contains sixteen sly and enchanting stories of Elfindom.
Author | : Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-05-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0241476100 |
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'The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans ... her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, the exploited, the obscure' Sarah Waters Sukey Bond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is sent to work as a servant at a farm on the remote Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with gentle, unworldly Eric, the son of the rector's wife, only for them to be separated when their relationship is discovered. But nothing will deter Sukey in her quest to be reunited with her true love, even if it means seeking the help of Queen Victoria herself. 'One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers' Hermione Lee 'One can't be too thankful that Miss Townsend Warner has lived to discover the alchemist's secret of transmuting the past into pure gold' Hilary Spurling
Author | : Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2019-09-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681373882 |
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A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.
Author | : Angelika Bammer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134980108 |
Download Partial Visions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Positing that a radical utopianism is one of the most vital impulses of feminist politics, Partial Visions traces the articulation of this impulse in the work of Euro-American, French and German women writers of the 1970s. It argues that this feminist utopianism both continued and reconceptualized a critical dimension of Left politics, yet concludes that feminist utopianism is not just visionary, but myopic - time and culture bound - as well.
Author | : Gero Bauer |
Publisher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3823393502 |
Download Kinship and Collective Action Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Make kin, not babies!", Donna Haraway demands in an attempt to offer new and creative ways of thinking what kinship might mean in an age of ecological devastation. At the same time, the emergence of a seemingly new culture of public protest and political opinion have provoked scholars such as Judith Butler to address the contexts and dynamics of public collective action. This volume explores the dynamic relationship between structures of kinship and the (material) conditions under which collective action emerges from a literary and cultural studies perspective. How are kinship and collective action negotiated in literature, the arts, or in specific historical moments, and how does this affect the role of representation? How have conceptualizations of both concepts developed over time, and what can we infer from this for questions of kinship and collective action today?
Author | : Johannes Willem Bertens |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 0415186641 |
Download Literary Theory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This accessible guide provides the ideal first step in understanding literary theory.