Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen S Shorter Fiction

Author : Heather Levy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793628183

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Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen’s Shorter Fiction by Heather Levy Pdf

Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen’s Shorter Fiction: Dead Reckoning focuses on Elizabeth Bowen's representations of violence against the self and others. Heather Levy examines the complicity of landscape and the implications of mayhem, murder, and suicide in The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (2006) edited by Angus Wilson and The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008) edited by Alan Hepburn. It introduces five previously unpublished short story fragments and two nearly complete stories from The Elizabeth Bowen Collection at The Harry Ransom Research Center. Levy argues that Bowen's shorter fiction is a quixotic celebration of moral transgression, crime without punishment, and suicide without mourners. Bowen's compassionate response to offenders and violence anticipated the Perpetrator Trauma movement in the United States. Her innovations with the freedom of the short story produced an uncanny narration of violence. This book integrates the entirety of the scholarship on Bowen's short stories in a clear and original manner and offers a synthetic and compelling excavation of Bowen's unpublished short stories.

Author : Lis Christensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8772896248

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Elizabeth Bowen by Lis Christensen Pdf

A Danish scholar of English and Irish literature, Christensen focuses on the four novels and handful of short stories that Anglo-Irish writer Bowen (1899-1973) published after World War II, which critics have tended to neglect until very recently. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Phyllis Lassner
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015020822485

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Elizabeth Bowen by Phyllis Lassner Pdf

Elizabeth Bowen is recognized as a major twentieth-century British writer. Her novels, stories, and family history, Bowen's Court, chronicle the impact of Anglo-Irish social and political upheaval on the personal lives and relations of her characters. Her novels of manners, such as The Death of the Heart (1938), expose the fragility of a traditional society in their psychological studies of men and women torn between social convention and personal expression. Her celebrated World War II fictions - the novel The Heat of the Day (1949) and stories such as "Mysterious Kor" - dramatize the tenuous psychological controls of people caught in the chaos of war. Bowen's acute analysis of individual and social psychology resonate in the works of such contemporary writers as Anita Brookner and Eudora Welty. In this first comprehensive study of Bowen's short stories, Phyllis Lassner lucidly and concisely examines Bowen's major themes and concerns. Characterized by their immediacy and what they suggest rather than state, the stories in Encounters and The Collected Stories, among others, reveal Bowen's lifelong attention to women's roles. Although closely related to the novels, the stories are distinct in their artistic achievement. In her discussions of such masterworks as "The Disinherited Summer Night" and "The Happy Autumn Fields", Lassner reveals that Bowen's most effective stories are those in which she has subtly inserted wry critiques of the role of traditional social codes in the formation of gender. This much-needed study of the short fiction includes excerpts from Bowen's own statements on writing as well as an excellent sampling of critical approaches to her work.

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593080634

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The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen by Elizabeth Bowen Pdf

Widely known for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction. This collection brings together seventy-nine magnificent stories written over the course of four decades. Vividly featuring scenes of bomb-scarred London during the Blitz, frustrated lovers, acutely observed children, and even vengeful ghosts, these stories reinforce Bowen's reputation as an artist whose finely chiseled narratives—rich in imagination, psychological insight, and craft—transcend their time and place.

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909748057

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Elizabeth Bowen by Elizabeth Bowen Pdf

Three short stories by Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973).So Much Depends, The Easter Egg Party and The Needlecase.

Author : Bryan Albin Giemza
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617037986

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Rethinking the Irish in the American South by Bryan Albin Giemza Pdf

A fresh look at a multifaceted minority culture

Author : Gildersleeve Jessica Gildersleeve
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN : 9781474458672

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Elizabeth Bowen by Gildersleeve Jessica Gildersleeve Pdf

Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theoryProvides new avenues for research in Bowen studies in ways that are concerned primarily with Bowen's perception of writing and narrativeMoves away from perceptions of Bowen's writing tied to existing ideological categories, such as viewing her work through a lens of psychoanalysis, modernism, or Irish or British history and which emphasise Bowen's innovation not as central to our understanding of the changes happening in twentieth-century literature and history, but as instead a point of 'difficulty'Recognises Bowen's innovation, experimentation and her impact on her contemporaries and literary descendants From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the way in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing. The eleven chapters present new scholarship on Bowen's inventiveness and unique writing style and attachment to objects, covering topics such as queer adolescents, housekeeping, female fetishism, habit and new technologies such as the telephone.

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Vintage Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1784877166

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The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen by Elizabeth Bowen Pdf

'Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them' Vogue SELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEY A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil. Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this new selection brings Elizabeth Bowen's finest short stories together for the first time. Elegant and subtle, they showcase Bowen's ability to evoke ineffable emotions - grief, nostalgia, self-consciousness, dread - and combine remarkable psychological insight with vivid settings, from the countryside of Bowen's native Ireland to the streets of her London home after the Blitz. Encompassing characters from many walks of life and a vast array of moods, these are intricate journeys of domesticity and discovery, of the homely and uncanny, of the mind and body.

Author : Elizabeth Bowen,William Heath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:500530803

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Elizabeth Bowen by Elizabeth Bowen,William Heath Pdf

Author : Nicola Darwood
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443839501

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A World of Lost Innocence by Nicola Darwood Pdf

Elizabeth Bowen was a prolific writer; her publishing career spanned five decades and during this time she wrote ten novels, over one hundred short stories and countless reviews and journal articles. While earlier novels are now acknowledged as Modernist texts, her later novels can be read through the lens of postmodernism; they can be considered variously as romantic fiction, marriage novels, war time spy thrillers and psychological drama but, throughout her novels, she consistently questioned notions of identity, sexuality and the loss of innocence. A World of Lost Innocence: The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen offers a reading of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction which focuses specifically on this loss, foregrounding the psychological conflicts experienced by her protagonists. It examines the subject not only across the range of her fiction, but also in relation to her unfolding narrative structures through a chronologically based discussion of her novels and selected short stories, interwoven with biographical information and drawing on unpublished letters. This book investigates the dominant kinds of innocence that Bowen represents throughout her fiction: the innocence attributed to childhood, sexual innocence and sexual morality, and political innocence, and argues that the transition from innocence to experience plays an important role in the epistemological journey faced both by Bowen’s characters and her readers.

Author : Elena Cotta Ramusino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8871645790

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Elizabeth Bowen's Other Writing. A Study of Her Non-fictional Prose by Elena Cotta Ramusino Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400096558

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To the North by Elizabeth Bowen Pdf

A young woman’s secret love affair leads to a violent and tragic act in one of Elizabeth Bowen’s most acclaimed novels. To the North centers on two young women in 1920s London, the recently widowed Cecilia Summers and her late husband's sister, Emmeline. Drawn to each other in the wake of their loss, the two set up house together and gradually become more entwined than they know. But the comfortable refuge they have made is "a house built on sand"; both realize it cannot last. While Cecilia, capricious and unsure if she can really love anyone, moves reluctantly toward a second marriage, Emmeline, a gentle and independent soul, is surprised to find the calm tenor of her life disturbed for the first time by her attraction to the predatory Mark Linkwater. Bowen’s psychological acuity is on full display in a conclusion that plumbs the depths of this seemingly detached young woman in a single, life-shattering moment.

Author : Andrew Bennett,Nicholas Royle
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312120486

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Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel by Andrew Bennett,Nicholas Royle Pdf

Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioners of the twentieth-century novel in English. This is an innovative study with significant implications for contemporary critical and theoretical writing. The authors contend that Bowen's work calls for a radically new conception of criticism and theory - and of the novel itself. Bowen's ten novels have been viewed as 'society' novels, novels of 'manners', modelled on - but inferior to - the writings of Henry James, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf. But the fundamental strangeness of Bowen's novels has gone largely unacknowledged.

Author : Harriet Blodgett
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015005500205

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Patterns of Reality by Harriet Blodgett Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014018306X

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To the North by Elizabeth Bowen Pdf

In 1920s London, Cecilia Summers, a recent widow, and her sister-in-law, Emmeline, face difficulties in their relationships with, respectively, the kind, but unemotional Julian Tower, and Mark Linkwater, who dictates the terms of his love affair