Author: Cathleen Therese Maslen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443809330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
It’s fatal making a fuss ... . -Jean Rhys, Quartet. Cathleen Maslen’s Ferocious Things: Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women’s Melancholia closely engages with the most obvious theme of Rhys’s writing: the speaking and inscription of feminine anguish. Maslen resists easy generalisations with respect to Rhys’s portrayal of women’s psychic pain, attending carefully to the nuances of sexual, cultural and ethnic displacement which inform the suffering of Rhys’s protagonists. Acknowledging the many fine recent critical engagements with Rhys’s unique corpus of novels, Maslen insists that Rhys’s particular articulation of women’s pain presents a significant literary transgression, defying the intractable cultural interdiction against women ‘making a fuss.’ At the same time, this book engages with the problematic privileging of melancholic and nostalgic discourse in the Western canon in general. Rhys’s work, Maslen argues, simultaneously celebrates and resists fundamentally Eurocentric and anti-feminist paradigms of melancholia and nostalgia. In short, the ferocious melancholia of Jean Rhys’s female voices poses constructive paradoxes and points of departure for feminist and post-colonial debates in the 21st century.
Ferocious Things
Author: Cathleen Therese Maslen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443809330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
It’s fatal making a fuss ... . -Jean Rhys, Quartet. Cathleen Maslen’s Ferocious Things: Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women’s Melancholia closely engages with the most obvious theme of Rhys’s writing: the speaking and inscription of feminine anguish. Maslen resists easy generalisations with respect to Rhys’s portrayal of women’s psychic pain, attending carefully to the nuances of sexual, cultural and ethnic displacement which inform the suffering of Rhys’s protagonists. Acknowledging the many fine recent critical engagements with Rhys’s unique corpus of novels, Maslen insists that Rhys’s particular articulation of women’s pain presents a significant literary transgression, defying the intractable cultural interdiction against women ‘making a fuss.’ At the same time, this book engages with the problematic privileging of melancholic and nostalgic discourse in the Western canon in general. Rhys’s work, Maslen argues, simultaneously celebrates and resists fundamentally Eurocentric and anti-feminist paradigms of melancholia and nostalgia. In short, the ferocious melancholia of Jean Rhys’s female voices poses constructive paradoxes and points of departure for feminist and post-colonial debates in the 21st century.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443809330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
It’s fatal making a fuss ... . -Jean Rhys, Quartet. Cathleen Maslen’s Ferocious Things: Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women’s Melancholia closely engages with the most obvious theme of Rhys’s writing: the speaking and inscription of feminine anguish. Maslen resists easy generalisations with respect to Rhys’s portrayal of women’s psychic pain, attending carefully to the nuances of sexual, cultural and ethnic displacement which inform the suffering of Rhys’s protagonists. Acknowledging the many fine recent critical engagements with Rhys’s unique corpus of novels, Maslen insists that Rhys’s particular articulation of women’s pain presents a significant literary transgression, defying the intractable cultural interdiction against women ‘making a fuss.’ At the same time, this book engages with the problematic privileging of melancholic and nostalgic discourse in the Western canon in general. Rhys’s work, Maslen argues, simultaneously celebrates and resists fundamentally Eurocentric and anti-feminist paradigms of melancholia and nostalgia. In short, the ferocious melancholia of Jean Rhys’s female voices poses constructive paradoxes and points of departure for feminist and post-colonial debates in the 21st century.
Fierce Pretty Things
Author: Tom Howard
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253041511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
In these eight darkly comic stories, Tom Howard explores the instincts for violence and tenderness that mark his character's lives. A brother and sister wander the pier after a deadly plague destroys most of humanity. A high school bully struggles to overcome his demons. A man in the grips of dementia is visited by his children's ghosts. The people in these blistering tales grapple with past mistakes, trying to navigate their way toward redemption and resurrection and failing often—but always with a ferocious heart. Their unforgettable voices guide us through schoolyards, cemeteries, drive-in theaters, and the rich landscapes of their own imaginations. Equal parts funny, tragic, and wise, Fierce Pretty Things is a striking debut that teaches us how to live in a world as cruel as it is beautiful.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253041511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
In these eight darkly comic stories, Tom Howard explores the instincts for violence and tenderness that mark his character's lives. A brother and sister wander the pier after a deadly plague destroys most of humanity. A high school bully struggles to overcome his demons. A man in the grips of dementia is visited by his children's ghosts. The people in these blistering tales grapple with past mistakes, trying to navigate their way toward redemption and resurrection and failing often—but always with a ferocious heart. Their unforgettable voices guide us through schoolyards, cemeteries, drive-in theaters, and the rich landscapes of their own imaginations. Equal parts funny, tragic, and wise, Fierce Pretty Things is a striking debut that teaches us how to live in a world as cruel as it is beautiful.
The Works of William H. Seward
Author: William Henry Seward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The Little Book of Big Stuff About the Brain
Author: Andrew Curran
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 1845902092
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Designed as a cover to cover read which leaves the reader with a working knowledge of the human brain from its first evolution 2 billion years ago to the present day. A light-hearted look at the brain aimed at a lay audience. It especially focuses on the neurobiology of emotional intelligence and in many ways is the neurobiological explanation of why emotional intelligence is so important to health, wealth and happiness.
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 1845902092
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Designed as a cover to cover read which leaves the reader with a working knowledge of the human brain from its first evolution 2 billion years ago to the present day. A light-hearted look at the brain aimed at a lay audience. It especially focuses on the neurobiology of emotional intelligence and in many ways is the neurobiological explanation of why emotional intelligence is so important to health, wealth and happiness.
The idyll and the epic
Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Shows the political, social, and religious upheaval that followed the Napoleonic Wars and Europe's great democratic revolutions. Jean Valjean, a peasant, has spent 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving children. This chronicles his life from the French provinces to the battlefield of Waterloo and the ramparts of Paris during the Uprising of 1832.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Shows the political, social, and religious upheaval that followed the Napoleonic Wars and Europe's great democratic revolutions. Jean Valjean, a peasant, has spent 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving children. This chronicles his life from the French provinces to the battlefield of Waterloo and the ramparts of Paris during the Uprising of 1832.
The Concrete Cowboy
Author: Stephan R. Hutchinson
Publisher: Stephan R Hutchinson
ISBN: 1588513653
Category : Tractor trailer combinations
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book is about a young man who gets out of the military and buys an over-the-road truck without thoroughly investigating the perils of the industry. He jumps in with both feet and it's "Full Speed Ahead" and "Hell Bent for Leather" from then on, facing the challenges of being an Interstate over-the-road trucker.
Publisher: Stephan R Hutchinson
ISBN: 1588513653
Category : Tractor trailer combinations
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book is about a young man who gets out of the military and buys an over-the-road truck without thoroughly investigating the perils of the industry. He jumps in with both feet and it's "Full Speed Ahead" and "Hell Bent for Leather" from then on, facing the challenges of being an Interstate over-the-road trucker.
Les Misérables
Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Les Misérables: The idyll and the epic
Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Les misérables
Author: Victor Marie Hugo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Romances of Victor Hugo: Les misérables. Bug-Jargal
Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description