Ebook: Elizabeth Bowen: a reputation in writing
Author: Bowen Elizabeth, Hoogland Renée Carine
- Tags: Feminism and literature--Ireland--History--20th century, Lesbians--Ireland--Intellectual life, Lesbians' writings English--Irish authors--History and criticism, Women and literature--Ireland--History--20th century, Women and literature, Feminism and literature, Lesbians--Intellectual life, Literature, History, Criticism interpretation etc, Bowen Elizabeth -- 1899-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation, Bowen Elizabeth -- 1899-1973, Lesbians' writings English -- Irish authors -- History and criticism, F
- Series: Cutting edge : lesbian life and literature
- Year: 1994
- Publisher: New York Univ. Press
- City: New York;Ireland
- Language: English
- epub
Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific outputten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial body of non- fictionBowen is a noteworthy novelist. The radical quality of her work, however, renders her an exceptional one.
Surfacing in both subject matter and style, her fictions harbor a subversive potential which has hitherto gone unnoticed. Using a wide range of critical theories-from semiotics to psychoanalysis, from narratology to deconstruction-this book presents a radical re-reading of a selection of Bowen's novels from a lesbian feminist perspective.
Taking into account both cultural contexts and the author's non-fictional writings, the book's main focus is on configurations of gender and sexuality. Bowen's fiction constitutes an exploration of the unstable and destabilizing effects of sexuality in the...