A Setting Analysis Of Jean Rhys Pioneers Oh Pioneers

Author : Sebastian Flock
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668361058

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A Setting Analysis of Jean Rhys’ "Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers" by Sebastian Flock Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Introduction to English/American Literary Studies II, language: English, abstract: Jean Rhys short-story “Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers” takes place on the Caribbean island Dominica at a time, when it was still a British colony. It is a story about aman called Mr. Ramage who buys a house on this island, marries a native girl and starts to behave so unconventional that the other people in the city become askant, spread rumours about them and pursue him. Under that pressure he probably commits suicide. Though the last-mentioned aspect is not said exactly it is most likely. The setting of the story is influenced by both, the environment and representatives of British colonialism and the nature and the wilderness of the Caribbean island itself. Rhys probably chose this exotic setting for two reasons: the accentuation of the unnaturalness and the declining power of British colonialism and for the reprocessing of her own childhood memories

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798656176491

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O Pioneers! (Annotated) by Willa Cather Pdf

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her frontier novels of life on the Great Plains, including Oh Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Antonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during the First World War. Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At 33, she moved to New York City, her main home for the rest of her life, although she also traveled extensively and spent considerable time at her summer residence in Grand.Cather was born Wilella Sibert Cather in 1873 on her maternal grandmother's farm in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia.Her father was Charles Fectigue Cather (died 1928), whose family had lived ashore in the valley for six generations. Cather's family originated in Wales, the surname derived from Cadair Idris, a mountain in Gwynedd. Her mother was Mary Virginia Boak (died 1931), a former school teacher. A year after Cather's birth, the family moved to Willow Shade, a 130-acre Greek Revival-style house given to them by their paternal grandparents.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798565895452

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O Pioneers! by Willa Cather Pdf

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : American Literature -- Fiction -- Cather
ISBN : OCLC:1418952891

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O Pioneers by Willa Cather Pdf

Author : Laurie Di Mauro
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015047605962

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Modern British Literature by Laurie Di Mauro Pdf

Author : Willa Sibert Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1084585198

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O Pioneers! [eBook - NC Digital Library] by Willa Sibert Cather Pdf

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140183450

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Sleep it Off Lady by Jean Rhys Pdf

Author : Julia Straub
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668930513

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On the Question of Identity in the Novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" of Jean Rhys by Julia Straub Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Constance, course: British and American Studies, language: English, abstract: This work focuses on the question of identity in the novel "Wide Sargasso Sea". Antoinette, the female protagonist of Jean Rhys’ novel "Wide Sargasso Sea", is struggling with those questions of her identity all her life. As a Creole girl, who lives in Jamaica during post-colonialism, she finds herself caught between two identities not knowing where she belongs. On the one hand, there is the black community which she knows and grows up with, on the other hand the white community which her mother tries to be a part of and forces Antoinette to fit into as well. This life between two contrasting cultures forces Antoinette into a situation of confusion and doubt which makes her question not only where she belongs but if she belongs at all. It drives her into a crisis which she is not able to escape. Jean Rhys published her novel in 1966. "Wide Sargasso Sea" tells the story of Antoinette Cosway who is also, known under the name of Bertha, a character of Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre". In "Wide Sargasso Sea" Rhys is giving Bertha/ Antoinette a story and a reason why she became mad in the first place. The story starts in her childhood and moves on to the marriage to Mr. Rochester. The last part is set when she is already imprisoned by her husband and is setting the house on fire which accords with the story told in "Jane Eyre". For the background of the novel it is important to know that Rhys herself grew up in a situation like Antoinette’s. She as well had troubles with identifying herself when she grew up. So Rhys shares part of Antoinette’s history which is probably why she was that interested in telling her story which is completely uncared-for by Brontë.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020776667

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stewart Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0192802291

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The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories by Stewart Brown Pdf

The Caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection extends beyond the realm of English-speaking writers, to include stories published in Spanish, French, and Dutch. It brings together contributions from major figures such as V. S. Naipaul, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and work from the exciting new generation of Caribbean writers represented by Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid.

Author : Malgorzata Swietlik
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783640896264

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"Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys as a postcolonial response to "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte by Malgorzata Swietlik Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,00, University of Koblenz-Landau (Anglistik), course: Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, language: English, abstract: Wide Sargasso Sea is one of the best-known literary postcolonial replies to the writing of Charlotte Bronte and a brilliant deconstruction of what is known as the author's "worlding" in Jane Eyre. The novel written by Jean Rhys tells the story of Jane Eyre's protagonist, Edward Rochester. The plot takes place in West Indies where Rochester met his first wife, Bertha Antoinette Mason. Wide Sargasso Sea influences the common reading and understanding of the matrix novel, as it rewrites crucial parts of Jane Eyre. The heroine in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette Cosway, is created out of demonic and bestialic Bertha Mason from Jane Eyre. Rhys's great achievement in her re-writing of the Bronte's text is her creation of a double to the madwoman from Jane Eyre. The heroine of Wide Sargasso Sea, the beautiful Antoinette Cosway, heiress of the post-emancipation fortune is created out of the demonc and bestialic Bertha Mason. The author transforms the first Mrs Rochester into an individual figure whose madness is caused by imperialistic and patriarchal oppression The vision of Bertha/Antoinette as an insane offspring from a family plagued by madness is no longer plausible to the reader. In this essay I would like to focus the factors which led to the madness of the protagonist. Although Bertha Mason and Jane Eyre seem to be enemies and contradictory characters in the Victorian novel, many critics find several similarities between the two heroines, their life and finally between Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. Seeing Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway as sisters and doubles is very popular with some critics who dealt with the works of Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys. Nevertheless, I would like to focus in this essay on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's criticism on viewing and interpreting the two heroines. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her essay "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" values also Jean Rhys for telling the story of Bertha Mason through the Creole perspective, but she criticises the author for marginalising the native inhabitants of West Indies.

Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679752509

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Run River by Joan Didion Pdf

The iconic writer's electrifying first novel is a story of marriage, murder and betrayal that only she could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense—from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience—a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California.

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486852843

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The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen Pdf

A sapphic affair simmers beneath the surface of Elizabeth Bowen's captivating first novel, which explores the social norms, personal identity, and subtle dynamics among the wealthy British guests of a luxurious seaside hotel.

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307829658

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Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said Pdf

A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.

Author : Christina Münzner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Postcolonialism in literature
ISBN : 9783656041269

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The Postcolonial Rewriting of Colonial Stories by Christina Münzner Pdf