Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing (Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature)
Renee Carine Hoogland
€ 92.62
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing (Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature)
Hardcover.
Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific outputten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial body of non- fictionBowen is a noteworthy novelist. The radical quality of her work, however, renders her an exceptional one.
Surfacing in both subject matter and style, her fictions harbor a subversive potential which has hitherto gone unnoticed. Using a wide range of critical theories-from semiotics to psychoanalysis, from narratology to deconstruction-this book presents a radical re-reading of a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
New York University Press New York
Condition
New
Number of Pages
390
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814735015
SKU
V9780814735015
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Renee Carine Hoogland
Rene C. Hoogland is Lecturer in Lesbian Studies/Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She has published articles on feminist/lesbian theory, postmodernism, women's and lesbian literature, and Hollywood cinema. She is now working on a book about sexual ambivalences in British and American cultural texts of the early 1960s.
Reviews for Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing (Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature)
Lively and topical. Firmly anchored in contemporary theory, Hoogland's analyses are witty and original, stylishly written and convincing. She confirms what one always suspected about adolescence, agency and identity in Bowen's heroines, and places Elizabeth Bowen in a startling context which is bound to bring her a whole new generation of attentive readers.
Jane Marcus,CUNY Graduate Center
Jane Marcus,CUNY Graduate Center