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Elizabeth Bowen - New Critical Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Elizabeth Bowen - New Critical Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Elizabeth Bowen has in more recent times been recognised as being
as radically important to our understanding of twentieth-century
literature as Samuel Beckett and she is now considered among the
most highly significant writers of the twentieth century. This
collection of essays is intended to broaden the critical framework
of Bowen scholarship and to extend Bowen criticism by more clearly
mapping her work's position in relation to contemporary critical
concerns and its location in relation to twentieth-century
literature generally. Combining close textual analysis with
theoretically informed readings, in this groundbreaking collection,
this group of leading international scholars explores how Bowen's
disruptive and deeply unconventional narratives encourage us to
read her as one of the most innovative writers of modern fiction, a
true progenitor of modernism.The original and freshly illuminating
essays chosen for "Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives" cite
and expound the dynamics of Bowen's fiction's originality and
value. While some essays explore her fictional narratives'
Beckettian affinities, her narratives' relation to the Gothic, and
the multiple ways her work challenges the norms and boundaries of
realism, others examine their representation of Sapphic relations,
the unexpected ways her work estranges the conventionally conceived
dialogic relation of reader and narrative, and the complex relation
of the aesthetic and the ethical in her narratives.Others explore
her fiction's unexpected connections to a range of specific
historical issues of major consequence during the early and
mid-twentieth century including the interrelated questions of
sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, nation and war. These readings
of Bowen's work will have widespread appeal and will be of special
interest to scholars and students of twentieth-century English and
Anglo-Irish literature, post-colonial literature, writers of the
thirties and forties, twentieth-century women's fiction, reading
theory, literary realism and literary modernism as well as to the
educated general reader.
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