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In this book, Mary Talbot shows how fiction works in the
constitution and reproduction of social life. She does not reduce
fiction to a functional support for ideology, however, but
considers that the greatest interest in fiction is as a source of
pleasure. She discusses both 'high' and 'low' fiction, combining
discussion of social context with language analysis. Taking a view
of fiction as a product of social practices, the book examines not
only the texts themselves but also what people do with them and how
they are valued. Fictions at work will be of interest to students
on a variety of courses including linguistics, English, women's
studies, cultural studies, and media and communication studies.
Reluctant muse and feminist champion… society heiress and rebel
refugee… the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played
many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Renouncing her
privileged upbringing in pre-war England for the more exciting
elite of Paris’s 1930s avant-garde, she comes to rub shoulders
(and more) with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Salvador
Dalí, after embarking on a complicated love affair with Max Ernst.
But the demons that have both haunted and inspired her work are
gathering, and when the world goes mad with the outbreak of war and
the Nazi invasion, Leonora’s own hold on reality collapses into a
terrifying psychotic episode of her own. Eventually fleeing
war-torn Europe, she emerges into a new and richly creative life in
Mexico City, establishing herself as a prodigious painter, writer,
and advocate of women’s rights. This new work by the acclaimed
partnership of Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot celebrates the life
and career of a truly remarkable woman – and artist.
In this book, Mary Talbot shows how fiction works in the
constitution and reproduction of social life. She discusses both
`high' and `low' fiction, combining discussion of social context
with language analysis. Examples are taken from children's tales,
romance, horror and science in her language analysis.
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