Jean Rhys

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241281901

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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Pdf

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's fiftieth anniversary. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece. 'She took one of the works of genius of the nineteenth century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the twentieth century' Michele Roberts, The Times

Author : Nancy R. Harrison
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469639826

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Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women's Text by Nancy R. Harrison Pdf

Is a woman's writing different from a man's? Many scholars -- and readers -- think so, even thought here has been little examination of the way women's novels enact the theories that women theorists have posited. In Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women's Text, Nancy Harrison makes an important contribution to the exchange of ideas on the writing practice of women and to the scholarship on Jean Rhys. Harrison determines what the form of a well-made women's novel discloses about the conditions of women's communication and the literary production that emerges from them. Devoting the first part of her book to theory and general commentary on Rhys's approach to writing, she then offers perceptive readings of Voyage in the Dark, an early Rhys novel, and Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys's masterpiece written twenty-seven years later. She shows how Rhys uses the terms of a man's discourse, then introduces a woman's (or several women's) discourse as a compelling counterpoint that, in time, becomes prominent and gives each novel its thematic impact. In presenting a continuing dialogue with the dominant language and at the same time making explicit the place of a woman's own language, Rhys gives us a paradigm for a new and basically moral text. Originally published in 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Thomas F Staley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349040780

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Jean Rhys by Thomas F Staley Pdf

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393357805

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Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys Pdf

The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves-- and losses-- of her past in this mesmerizing and formally daring psychological portrait.

Author : Miranda Seymour
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780008355609

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I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour Pdf

‘An absolute belter of a biography’ MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

Author : Pierrette M. Frickey
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0894100580

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Critical Perspectives on Jean Rhys by Pierrette M. Frickey Pdf

Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea, Quartet, and other novels treating the alienation of a woman from the Caribbean living in European settings, has been a focus of interest both as a feminist writer and in the context of Caribbean literature.

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0141984546

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Smile Please by Jean Rhys Pdf

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241290859

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The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys Pdf

New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories: of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafés; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss. Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers and offer a fascinating counterpoint to her most famous novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. This volume includes all the stories from her three collections,The Left Bank (1927), Tigers Are Better-Looking (1968) and Sleep It Off, Lady (1976).

Author : Veronica Marie Gregg
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469617350

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Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination by Veronica Marie Gregg Pdf

As the foremost white West Indian writer of this century and author of the widely acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1890-1979) has attracted much critical attention, most often from the perspective of gender analysis. Veronica Gregg extends our critical appreciation of Rhys by analyzing the complex relationship between Rhys's identity and the structures of her fiction, and she reveals the ways in which this relationship is connected to the history of British colonization of the West Indies. Gregg focuses on Rhys as a writer--a Creole woman analyzing the question of identity through literary investigations of race, gender, and colonialism. Arguing that history itself can be a site where different narratives collide and compete, she explores Rhys's rewriting of the historical discourses of the West Indies and of European canonical texts, such as Rhys's treatment of Jane Eyre in Wide Sargasso Sea. Gregg's analysis also reveals the precision with which Rhys crafted her work and her preoccupation with writing as performance.

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Imprisonment
ISBN : 0140183442

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Quartet by Jean Rhys Pdf

Author : Lilian Pizzichini
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393079395

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The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys by Lilian Pizzichini Pdf

A groundbreaking biography of a psychologically traumatized novelist who forever changed the way we look at women in fiction. Jean Rhys (1890–1979) is best known for her 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea. A prequel to Jane Eyre, Rhys’s revolutionary work reimagined the story of Bertha Rochester—the misunderstood “madwoman in the attic” who was driven to insanity by cruelties beyond her control. The Blue Hour performs a similar exhumation of Rhys’s life, which was haunted by demons from within and without. Its examination of Rhys’s pain and loss charts her desperate journey from the jungles of Dominica to a British boarding school, and then into an adult life scarred by three failed marriages, the deaths of her two children, and her long battle with alcoholism.A mesmerizing evocation of a fragile and brilliant mind, The Blue Hour explores the crucial element that ultimately spared Rhys from the fate of her most famous protagonist: a genius that rescued her, again and again, from the abyss.

Author : Elaine Savory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139478472

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The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys by Elaine Savory Pdf

Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies among them. This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of her life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, is analyzed together with her other novels, including Quartet and After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, and her short stories. Through close readings of the works, Elaine Savory reveals their common themes and connects these to different critical approaches. The book maps Rhys's fictional use of the actual geography of Paris, London and the Caribbean, showing how key understanding her relationships with the metropolitan and colonial spheres is to reading her texts. In this invaluable introduction for students, Savory explains the significance of Rhys as a writer both in her lifetime and today.

Author : Carole Angier
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 0571276415

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Jean Rhys by Carole Angier Pdf

'An acute literary intelligence ... the reader comes to trust instinctively Angier's assessments.' New York Times Jean Rhys (1890-1979) had a long life of great difficulty. So inept was she in its management that her authority as the writer of five beautifully shaped and controlled novels appears mysterious: how could someone so bad at living be so good at writing about it? Carole Angier answers this question. Jean Rhys never denied that she used her own experience in her writings, but no one hitherto has understood so well the nature of, and reasons for, this use. On her way to understanding, Carole Angier discovered more about the life than seemed possible. Jean Rhys's childhood, her momentous first love affair, her three marriages, the disasters which befell her husbands, her drinking and its consequences: all are shown with unsparing clarity. Equally clearly, and more importantly, we see the dynamics of her personality as it underwent, and sometimes provoked, these experiences. Sometimes what is revealed is shocking; but Carole Angier's sympathy and compassion dispel dismay, and her brilliant demonstrations of how art was made of events and emotions restores admiration on foundations which are stronger than ever. Jean Rhys did not want anyone to write about her, but this first full biography put beyond question her standing as a great writer of our time, written with an intensity and clarity which mirrors her own. It is a work of exceptional intimacy, sensitivity and power. 'Remarkable, the definitive biography. It is deeply researched, subtle, sympathetic.' Claire Tomalin Independent on Sunday 'Mesmerising.' Washington Post

Author : David Plante
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681371504

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Difficult Women by David Plante Pdf

David Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades. Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist himself. The book begins with David Plante’s portrait of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication of The Wide Sargasso Sea, after years of silence that had made Rhys’s great novels of the 1920s and ’30s as good as unknown, had at last gained genuine recognition for her. Rhys, however, can hardly be said to be enjoying her new fame. A terminal alcoholic, she curses and staggers and rants like King Lear on the heath in the hotel room that she has made her home, while Plante looks impassively on. Sonia Orwell is his second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless victim of her beauty and social prowess, while the unflappable, brilliant, and impossibly opinionated Germaine Greer sails through the final pages, ever ready to set the world, and any erring companion, right.

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393306259

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The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys Pdf

Jean Rhys was one of the twentieth century's foremost writers, a literary artist who made exqusite use of the raw material of her own often turbulent life to create fiction of memorable resonance and poignancy. Here for the first time in one volume are her complete stories.