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Materialisations of a Woman Writer

Author : Maria Wikse
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 3039107054
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (17 users)

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Download Materialisations of a Woman Writer PDF by Maria Wikse Full Free and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet Frame's literary career was inextricably woven into the fabric of the twentieth-century New Zealand literary scene. However, she also became New Zealand's best-known international writer and her great literary influence in both fields has not been charted before now. This study also seeks to redress the excessive commitment in scholarship to maintaining, even celebrating, Frame's reputation as a psychologically disturbed writer. This book surveys all aspects of Janet Frame's biographical legend by considering her later literary and autobiographical works, Jane Campion's film adaptation of the autobiographies, An Angel at my Table, as well as biographies and literary histories that both rely on and contribute to her well-known legend. In doing so, the author hopes to offer novel perspectives on Frame's literary production, on Frame scholarship, on auto/biographical theories and on New Zealand literary history.

Jane Campion

Author : Hilary Radner
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 10 : 0814334326
Pages : 350 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (334 users)

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Frameworks

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Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2009-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9789042026773
Pages : 255 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (42 users)

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Download Frameworks PDF by Full Free and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet Frame’s work is notorious for the demands it makes on reader and critic. This collection of nine new essays by international Frame specialists draws on a range of critical frameworks to explore fresh ways of looking at Frame’s fiction, poetry, and autobiography. At the same time, the essays plug into the energy of Frame’s work to challenge our thinking within and beyond these frameworks. Frameworks offers a unique perspective on Frame studies today, showcasing its major concerns as well as heralding new Frame narratives for the decade ahead. Mindful of preceding Frame criticism, these essays use their contemporary vantage-point to recast seminal questions about the relationship between Janet Frame’s work and its critical contexts. Each of the essays makes a case for framing her work in a particular way, but all are characterized by self-reflexivity regarding their own critical practice and the relationship they assume between exegetical framework and Frame’s work. Underlying this practice, and contained within the pun of the title, are the elementary-sounding yet fundamental questions of Frame studies: How does Frame’s work work? And how do we work with her work?

A History of New Zealand Literature

Author : Mark Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-19
ISBN 10 : 9781316546192
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (316 users)

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Download A History of New Zealand Literature PDF by Mark Williams Full Free and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of New Zealand Literature traces the genealogy of New Zealand literature from its first imaginings by Europeans in the eighteenth century. Beginning with a comprehensive introduction that charts the growth of, and challenges to, a nationalist literary tradition, the essays in this History illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of New Zealand literature, surveying the multilayered verse, fiction and drama of such diverse writers as Katherine Mansfield, Allen Curnow, Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism, biculturalism and multiculturalism in New Zealand literature. A History of New Zealand Literature is of pivotal importance to the development of New Zealand writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.

Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand

Author : Alistair Fox
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-07
ISBN 10 : 9781474429474
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (474 users)

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Jane Campion and Adaptation

Author : Estella Tincknell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-11-26
ISBN 10 : 9781350306387
Pages : 148 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (35 users)

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Download Jane Campion and Adaptation PDF by Estella Tincknell Full Free and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for The Piano, Jane Campion is an author/director whose films explore the relationship between literature and cinema. This book examines Campion's films as adaptations, mixing cultural and textual analysis, and exploring context, pastiche and genre. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Campion or adaptation studies.

Chasing Butterflies

Author : Vanessa Guignery
Publisher : Editions Publibook
Release Date : 2011
ISBN 10 : 9782748363906
Pages : 172 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (748 users)

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Download Chasing Butterflies PDF by Vanessa Guignery Full Free and published by Editions Publibook. This book was released on 2011 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1951, Janet Frame published her first book The Lagoon and Other Stories, a collection which would win the most prestigious national literary award in New Zealand and launch her fascinating career. The essays collected in this volume examine the motifs at work in Frame’s short stories and unravel a unique literary world which revisits the realist tradition and grants prose a poetic dimension. As much a reflexion about language, voice, modes of writing and narrative strategies as an analysis of Frame’s recurrent concerns with identity, childhood, relationships between mothers and daughters, secrecy, marginality, community or death, Chasing Butterflies is a great tribute to one of the most famous New Zealand writers.

The Frame Function

Author : Jan Cronin
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
ISBN 10 : 9781869407506
Pages : 251 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (869 users)

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Download The Frame Function PDF by Jan Cronin Full Free and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Owls do Cry to The Carpathians, the novels of Janet Frame have challenged our understanding of what fiction does. The Frame Function is a guide for those who are intrigued, stimulated, sometimes baffled by Frame's powerful novels. In The Frame Function, Jan Cronin traces the operation of a prescriptive authorial presence within the novels to offer an engaging 'inside-out' guide to a great writer's work. Drawing on Frame's personal and professional correspondence and the dynamic between that Frame and the various Frames of the novels, Cronin explores key issues: Frame's relationship with her readers; the nature of the 'difficulty' the novels present; and the questions of intentionality Frame's work forces us to address. Each chapter offers readers a tour of one or more Frame novels: how they work; how Frame writes; and the impact these fundamentals have on readers interpreting and engaging with her work. Readers of Frame's books frequently sense the presence of some kind of puzzle to be solved but can't quite distil its parameters. The Frame Function takes as its starting point this capacity of Frame's texts to lure the reader into looking for solutions while simultaneously deterring such behaviour. In crafting a portrait of Frame's compositional processes, Cronin provides new insights into the underlying relationship between prescriptiveness and elusiveness in Frame's work.

Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation

Author : Nhemachena, Artwell
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Release Date : 2017-11-28
ISBN 10 : 9789956763948
Pages : 338 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (956 users)

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Download Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation PDF by Nhemachena, Artwell Full Free and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary scholarly discourses about decolonising materialities are taking two noticeable trajectories, the first trajectory privileges establishing “connections”, “relationships” and “associations” between human beings and nature. The second trajectory privileges restoration, restitution, reparations for colonial dispossessions, lootings and disinheritance. While the first trajectory presupposes that colonialism was merely about “separation”, “alienation”, and “disconnections” between human beings and nature, the second trajectory stresses the colonialists’ dispossession, disinheritance and privations of Africans. Drawing on contemporary discourses about materialities in relation to semiotics, (non-)representationalism, rhetoric, ecocriticism, territorialisation, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, translation, animism, science and technology studies, this book teases out the intellectually rutted terrain of African materialities. It argues that in a world of increasing impoverishment, the significance of materialities cannot be overemphasised: more so for the continent of Africa where impoverishment “materialises” in the midst of resource opulence. The book is a pacesetter in no holds barred interrogation of African materialities.

A History of Early Modern Women's Writing

Author : Patricia Phillippy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-18
ISBN 10 : 9781108576284
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (18 users)

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Narrative, Social Myth and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women’s Writing

Author : Tudor Balinisteanu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10-02
ISBN 10 : 9781443816205
Pages : 330 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (443 users)

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Download Narrative, Social Myth and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women’s Writing PDF by Tudor Balinisteanu Full Free and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original interdisciplinary analysis of the relations between myth, identity and social reality, involving elements of narratology theory, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and social theory, harnessed to support an argument firmly located in the area of literary criticism. This analysis yields a fairly extensive reinterpretation of the concept of myth, which is applied to the examination of the relationship between narrative and social reality as represented in texts by contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers. The main theoretical sources are Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of heteroglossia, Jacques Derrida’s theories of citationality and Judith Butler’s theories of subjectivity. The analysis framework developed in the book uses these theories to create a new way of understanding how literary texts change readers’ worldviews by enticing them to accept alternative possibilities of cultural expression of identity and social order. The texts analysed in this book reconfigure naturalised stories that have become normative and constraining in conveying identities and visions of legitimate social orders. The book’s focus on feminine identities places it alongside feminist analyses of reconstructions of fairy tales, myths or canonical stories that establish what counts as legitimate feminine identity. Studied here for the first time together, the writers whose texts form the interest of this book continue the revisionist work begun by other women writers who engage with the male generated literary, philosophical and humanist tradition. They share a view of narratives as tools for continually negotiating our identities, social worlds and socialisation scenarios. While the high-level theoretical discourse of the first part of the book requires specialised knowledge, the second part of the book, offering close readings of the texts, is both lively and accessible and should engage the interest of the general reader and academic alike. This book is written for all those who are interested in the power words have to hold sway over our inner and outer (social) worlds.

Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Katrina O'Loughlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-14
ISBN 10 : 9781108599924
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (18 users)

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Spiritualism and Women's Writing

Author : T. Kontou
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2009-08-26
ISBN 10 : 9780230240797
Pages : 245 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (23 users)

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Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing

Author : Jennifer Leetsch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-07-16
ISBN 10 : 9783030677541
Pages : 282 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (3 users)

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Download Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing PDF by Jennifer Leetsch Full Free and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space. The study breaks new ground by systematically bringing together critical love studies with research into the cultures of migration, diaspora and refuge. Examining a notable tendency among current black feminist writers, poets and performers to insist on the affective dimension of world-making, the book ponders strategies of reconfiguring postcolonial discourses. Indeed, the analyses of literary works and intermedia performances by Chimamanda Adichie, Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Shailja Patel and Warsan Shire reveal an urge of moving beyond a familiar insistence on processes of alienation or rupture and towards a new, reparative emphasis on connection and intimacy – to imagine possible inhabitable worlds.

Writing the Colonial Adventure

Author : Robert Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995
ISBN 10 : 0521484391
Pages : 246 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (484 users)

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American Book Publishing Record

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Publisher :
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015066180442
Pages : 838 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (39 users)

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700

Author : Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-22
ISBN 10 : 9780192604736
Pages : 897 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (192 users)

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Download The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 PDF by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann Full Free and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women's writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on—and challenges—the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present.