Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams, and Graham Greene
Andrea Freud Loewenstein examines the persistent anti-semitic tendencies in modernist British intellectual culture. Pursuing her subject with literary, historical and psychological analyses, she argues that this anti-semitism must be understood in terms of its metaphorical link with mysogyny.
Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams, and Graham Greene
How typical of his generation was T.S. Eliot when he complained that Hitler made an intelligent anti-semitism impossible for a generation? In her new book, Loathsome Jews and Engulfing Women, novelist and critic, Andrea Freud Loewenstein examines the persistent anti-semitic tendencies in modernist, British intellectual culture. Pursuing her ......
This first book-length study of the fiction of John McGahern traces his development as an artist by providing a detailed reading of each of his five novels and three collections of short stories. Denis Sampson argues that McGahern's treatment of time and consciousness, of self, story, and fictional form, of memory and narrative voice, and of the ......
Gatsby's Party contributes to the ongoing research on, and application of systems theory and information theory to, literary texts. White applies current research toward an architectural understanding of narrative structure, moving beyond interpretations (and applications) of systems theory that have been largely thematic or author-centered. it ......
A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-70
This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on the works of a dozen especially productive and successful writers. Woman's ......
Asks how successful Dickens was in portraying women, and aims to offer insights into the way in which his novels - particularly Bleak House, Little Dorrit and Great Expectations - both uphold emotional needs and also represent the limitations of his view of women and that of his time.
Showalter's thoughtful, detailed introductory essay is a comprehensive analysis between Rosetti's novella and Craik's essays...the biographical portrait of Christina Rossetti's conflicts makes her a vivid example of the psychological and social barriers to the development of the female poets...her description of Dinah Mulock Craik stressed this ......
Examines the ways in which the experiences of the text, and the experiences of characters, diverge and converge with the writer's own biography. Meese considers such issues as authorial intention, the intersection of life and work and the semiotic/erotic space of the woman writer's body.
Examines the ways in which the experiences of the text, and the experiences of characters, diverge and converge with the writer's own biography. Meese considers such issues as authorial intention, the intersection of life and work and the semiotic/erotic space of the woman writer's body.
