Letty Fox

Author : Christina Stead
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 877 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453265246

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Letty Fox by Christina Stead Pdf

From Paris to London to wartime New York, a young woman comes of age—and comes apart—in this witty novel by the author of The Man Who Loved Children. When Letty Fox first arrives in Manhattan, her goal is to escape her chaotic upbringing in London and Paris and the cynicism of her family, and create a fresh new start. This will be the existence she dreamed of—flitting from affair to affair, debating social issues over martinis, and finishing that novel about Robespierre that will make her envied by all the right people. Yet, Letty is at odds with both the city and herself: sexually adventurous yet fidgety for lasting romance, radically independent yet conservative, as likely to be betrayed by friends as she is to betray. And when Letty runs through the streets of Greenwich Village, it’s as much to unleash her glorious appetite for life as it is to suppress the “black moods” that always threaten to derail it. “No wonder [Christina Stead’s] work has reminded many of Tolstoy, Ibsen, Joyce,” said the New York Times Book Review. When this poisonously funny satire of the American bourgeoisie was first published in 1947, it was banned in the author’s native Australia, and met with alarm by stateside critics for its moral ambiguity. Ahead of its time with its vibrant and furious heroine, it is destined for rediscovery. From an author Saul Bellow called “really marvelous,” Letty Fox is a “merciless, cruel, and magnificently unforgiving” comedy of manners (Angela Carter, London Review of Books).

Author : Christina Stead
Publisher : Adelphi Edizioni spa
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788845985171

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Letty Fox by Christina Stead Pdf

«Non c’è frase di questo romanzo che non commuova e non sospinga verso la prossima con spontanea curiosità e gratitudine. Poi, però, finisce, ma giusto all’ultima parola e non a una di meno» (Aldo Busi). In una calda primavera del 1942 una sensuale ventiquattrenne, dopo aver inutilmente aspettato la telefonata del suo uomo del momento, lascia la sua stanza d’albergo e si butta per le vie del Village, depressa. È piena di debiti ma gira in taxi, va a letto all’alba ma lavora fino al tramonto – e affronta una mondanità sfrenata con il solo corredo di «completini lisi e infeltriti». Sotto la scorza cinica e dissoluta conserva una polpa romantica, perché non ha smesso di cercare l’Amore. Ma dentro la polpa romantica nasconde un nocciolo pragmatico, perché continua a desiderare il matrimonio e la famiglia. Com’è arrivata Letty Fox a questo punto della sua vita? La Stead ce lo racconta con una scrittura in cui la parola assume un profilo duro, potente, spietato, capace di rendere ogni vibrazione emotiva.

Author : Diana Saunders
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0917657748

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The Passion of Letty Fox by Diana Saunders Pdf

Author : Margaret Harris
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0702225061

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The Magic Phrase by Margaret Harris Pdf

This is the first volume of essays by various hands on the work of the great Australian novelist Christina Stead (1902-83). It provides an overview of Stead criticism, including pioneering 'classic' essays, together with a selection from the burgeoning critical literature of the 1980s and '90s, and several articles not previously published.

Author : Diana Brydon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0389206903

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Christina Stead by Diana Brydon Pdf

Stead's novels have gained growing readership and critical attention in recent years. This feminist reading of the life and work of Christina Stead focuses on her characters and themes that question established assumptions about gender and class relations and the aesthetic values they support.

Author : Nicholas Birns,Rebecca McNeer
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1571133496

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A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 by Nicholas Birns,Rebecca McNeer Pdf

A fresh twenty-first century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive and multicultural sense.

Author : David Carter,Roger Osborne
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743325797

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Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s by David Carter,Roger Osborne Pdf

Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s explores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United States before the mid twentieth century to a much greater degree than previously acknowledged. Drawing on fresh archival research and combining the approaches of literary criticism, print culture studies and book history, David Carter and Roger Osborne demonstrate that Australian writing was transnational long before the contemporary period. In mapping Australian literature’s connections to British and US markets, their research challenges established understandings of national, imperial and world literatures. Carter and Osborne examine how Australian authors, editors and publishers engaged productively with their American counterparts, and how American readers and reviewers responded to Australian works. They consider the role played by British publishers and agents in taking Australian writing to America, and how the international circulation of new literary genres created new opportunities for novelists to move between markets. Some of these writers, such as Christina Stead and Patrick White, remain household names; others who once enjoyed international fame, such as Dale Collins and Alice Grant Rosman, have been largely forgotten. The story of their books in America reveals how culture, commerce and copyright law interacted to create both opportunities and obstacles for Australian writers.

Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743324363

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Contemporary Australian Literature by Nicholas Birns Pdf

Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia’s distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance. In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward. Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice – one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it. Contrary to the despairing of the critics, Australian literary identity continues to flourish. And as Birns finds, it is not one thing, but many. "In this remarkable, bold and fearless book, Nicholas Birns contests how literary cultures are read, how they are constituted and what they stand for … In examining the nature of the barriers between public and private utterance, and looking outside the absurdity of the rules of genre, Birns has produced a redemptive analysis that leaves hope for revivifying a world not yet dead." - John Kinsella

Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628720068

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Hell and Back by Tim Parks Pdf

In this brilliant collection of essays, Tim Parks, a celebrated novelist and master of the essay form, offers a wide range of wonderfully challenging and always provocative reflections on literature and the art of writing. Parks turns his attention to classic authors such as Dante, Leopardi, Borges, Beckett, and Christina Stead; contemporary writers including Vikram Seth and Salman Rushdie; and the late W. G. Sebald and José Saramago, along with a dozen others. The lead essay on Dante sets the tone for the entire collection: erudite, contemplative, witty, and meticulous, it constantly offers new insights into The Inferno, that most celebrated of all poems. In Hell and Back, Tim Parks reminds us just how exciting the essay form can be.

Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199301577

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Antipodean America by Paul Giles Pdf

Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British colonies and mutual entanglements continue today, when contemporary cultures of globalization have brought them more closely into juxtaposition. Taking this transpacific kinship as his focus, Paul Giles presents a sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history to consider the impact of Australia and New Zealand on the formation of U.S. literature. Early American writers such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Joel Barlow and Charles Brockden Brown found the idea of antipodes to be a creative resource, but also an alarming reminder of Great Britain's increasing sway in the Pacific. The southern seas served as inspiration for narratives by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville. For African Americans such as Harriet Jacobs, Australia represented a haven from slavery during the gold rush era, while for E.D.E.N. Southworth its convict legacy offered an alternative perspective on the British class system. In the 1890s, Henry Adams and Mark Twain both came to Australasia to address questions of imperial rivalry and aesthetic topsy-turvyness. The second half of this study considers how Australia's political unification through Federation in 1901 significantly altered its relationship to the United States. New modes of transport and communication drew American visitors, including novelist Jack London. At the same time, Americans associated Australia and New Zealand with various kinds of utopian social reform, particularly in relation to gender politics, a theme Giles explores in William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Miles Franklin. He also considers how American modernism in New York was inflected by the Australasian perspectives of Lola Ridge and Christina Stead, and how Australian modernism was in turn shaped by American styles of iconoclasm. After World War II, Giles examines how the poetry of Karl Shapiro, Louis Simpson, Yusef Komunyakaa, and others was influenced by their direct experience of Australia. He then shifts to post-1945 fiction, where the focus extends from Irish-American cultural politics (Raymond Chandler, Thomas Keneally) to the paradoxes of exile (Shirley Hazzard, Peter Carey) and the structural inversions of postmodernism and posthumanism (Salman Rushdie, Donna Haraway). Ranging from figures like John Ledyard to John Ashbery, from Emily Dickinson to Patricia Piccinini and J. M. Coetzee, Antipodean America is a truly epic work of transnational literary history.

Author : Geordie Williamson
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781921961236

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The Burning Library by Geordie Williamson Pdf

Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works we may have forgotten or missed altogether. His focus is on fiction that gives pleasure, and he is ardent in defence of books that for whatever reason sit uneasily in the present moment.

Author : Fiona Morrison
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743324509

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Christina Stead and the Matter of America by Fiona Morrison Pdf

Although Christina Stead is best known for the mid-century masterpiece set in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, The Man Who Loved Children, it was not her only work about the America. Five of Christina Stead’s mid-career novels deal with the United States, capturing and critiquing American life with characteristic sharpness and originality. In this examination of Stead’s American work, Fiona Morrison explores Stead’s profound engagement with American politics and culture and their influence on her “restlessly experimental” style. Through the turbulent political and artistic debates of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the emergence of McCarthyism, the “matter” of America provoked Stead to continue to create new ways of writing about politics, gender and modernity. This is the first critical study to focus on Stead’s time in America and its influence on her writing. Morrison argues compellingly that Stead’s American novels “reveal the work of the greatest political woman writer of the mid twentieth century”, and that Stead’s account of American ideology and national identity remains extraordinarily prescient, even today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066256838

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Australian Literary Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mathilda Adie
Publisher : Lund University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Heroines in literature
ISBN : 9197402362

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Female Quest in Christina Stead's For Love Alone by Mathilda Adie Pdf

Christina Stead's works resist simplistic categorization, a circumstance which has attracted some critics and exasperated many others. The upsurge of post-colonial and feminist criticism in the 1980s revitalized critical interest in her books. Exuberant intertextuality and an abundance of contradictory literary and ideological discourses - previously often regarded as excesses flawing Stead's literary style - now became appreciated qualities. The aim of this book is to illuminate a host of revealing, but frequently overlooked, details that form patterns essential for a deeper understanding and enjoyment of Stead's novels. Intertextuality and the workings of conflicting discourses play prominent parts in the critical analyses of quests undertaken by Stead's female characters, particularly that of Teresa Hawkins whose quest provides For Love Alone with its romance structure. A combination of Northrop Frye's myth criticism with feminist and post-colonial criticism opens the way for an in-depth analysis of Teresa as a modern quest hero, informed by literature but at odds with its conventional gender roles. The intertextual perspective sheds light on her progress, as well as on important parts of the literary context in which For Love Alone is embedded. The concluding survey of Stead's other novels traces the development of Stead's treatment of female quest within the entire body of her fiction.

Author : Simon During
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135278694

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Exit Capitalism by Simon During Pdf

Exit Capitalism re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history, analysing how the decline of the socialist ideal and the emergence of endgame capitalism helped to produce both modern theory and cultural studies as academic fields.