Side Stepping Normativity In Selected Short Stories By Sylvia Townsend Warner

Author : Rebecca K. Hahn
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823393894

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Side-Stepping Normativity in Selected Short Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner by Rebecca K. Hahn Pdf

Side-Stepping Normativity: Selected Short Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner discusses Sylvia Townsend Warner's highly innovative narrative style, which does not conform to conventional modernist or postmodernist standards, and explores how Warner's short stories shift to off-centre positions. Side-Stepping Normativity further outlines the way in which Warner constantly challenges the categories we apply to classify our surroundings and analyses how Warner succeeds in creating queer, that is, non-heteronormative as well strange and peculiar stories without explicitly opposing the so-called norms of her time. In this, Side-Stepping Normativity joins a vibrant conversation in queer studies which revolves around the question how critics can approach literary texts from a non-antagonistic position. Rather than focussing on the role of the critic, however, this thesis shows that Warner's texts have long achieved what queer theorists seek to achieve on an analytical level.

Author : Rebecca Hahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3823383892

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Side-Stepping Normativity by Rebecca Hahn Pdf

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486843483

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Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

"Witty, eerie, tender." — John Updike. In this early feminist classic, a middle-aged London spinster escapes her controlling family by moving to the country, becoming a witch, and securing her freedom by making a pact with Satan.

Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780449000946

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Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy Pdf

Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity—and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time “This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Piercy’s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.”—Gloria Steinem “An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly “Connie Ramos’s world is cuttingly real.”—Newsweek “Absorbing and exciting.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141994826

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The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

'The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans ... her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, the exploited, the obscure' Sarah Waters Sukey Bond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is sent to work as a servant at a farm on the remote Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with gentle, unworldly Eric, the son of the rector's wife, only for them to be separated when their relationship is discovered. But nothing will deter Sukey in her quest to be reunited with her true love, even if it means seeking the help of Queen Victoria herself. 'One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers' Hermione Lee 'One can't be too thankful that Miss Townsend Warner has lived to discover the alchemist's secret of transmuting the past into pure gold' Hilary Spurling

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241454879

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Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

'A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time' Guardian 'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner' Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House, upstanding Victorian matriarch, has packed her errant husband off to Paris with his mistress Minna. But when tragedy throws her life off balance Sophia goes to seek him out, and instead finds herself intensely attracted to the charismatic, bohemian Minna, who leads her on a wild, chaotic adventure through a city in the throes of revolution. 'One of the great under-read British novelists of the twentieth century. This is my favourite of her novels' Sarah Waters 'Every page contains something brilliant, arresting or amusing, and one comes away from it staggered' Claire Harman

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241454824

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The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah Waters The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women. 'As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy' George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement 'Spellbinding . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page' Sunday Times 'Magnificent' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Handheld Classics
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Fairies
ISBN : 199994481X

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Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

Sylvia Townsend Warner's final collection of short stories contains sixteen sly and enchanting stories of Elfindom.

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910263273

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English Climate: Wartime Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

Author : Johannes Willem Bertens,Hans Bertens
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780415186643

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Literary Theory by Johannes Willem Bertens,Hans Bertens Pdf

This accessible guide provides the ideal first step in understanding literary theory.

Author : Angelika Bammer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134980109

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Partial Visions by Angelika Bammer Pdf

Positing that a radical utopianism is one of the most vital impulses of feminist politics, Partial Visions traces the articulation of this impulse in the work of Euro-American, French and German women writers of the 1970s. It argues that this feminist utopianism both continued and reconceptualized a critical dimension of Left politics, yet concludes that feminist utopianism is not just visionary, but myopic - time and culture bound - as well.

Author : Robert G. Moeller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520205162

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Protecting Motherhood by Robert G. Moeller Pdf

"Entirely original. . . . All future texts on modern Germany will have to take on board the findings of this major study."--Volker Berghahn, author of Modern Germany

Author : Mary Borden
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843919964

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The Forbidden Zone by Mary Borden Pdf

Mary Borden worked for four years in an evacuation hospital unit following the front lines up and down the European theater of the First World War. This beautifully written book, to be read alongside the likes of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, is a collection of her memories and impressions of that experience. Describing the men as they march into battle, engaging imaginatively with the stories of individual soldiers, and recounting procedures at the field hospital, the author offers a perspective on the war that is both powerful and intimate.

Author : Kadri Aavik,Clarice Bland,Josephine Hoegaerts,Janne Tuomas Vilhelm Salminen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110647860

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Men, Masculinities and the Modern Career by Kadri Aavik,Clarice Bland,Josephine Hoegaerts,Janne Tuomas Vilhelm Salminen Pdf

This book focuses on the multiple and diverse masculinities ‘at work’. Spanning both historical approaches to the rise of ‘profession’ as a marker of masculinity, and critical approaches to the current structures of management, employment and workplace hierarchy, the book questions what role masculinity plays in cultural understandings, affective experiences and mediatised representations of a professional ‘career’.

Author : Thomas Princen,Michael Maniates,Ken Conca
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262661284

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Confronting Consumption by Thomas Princen,Michael Maniates,Ken Conca Pdf

Essays that offer ecological, social, and political perspectives on the problem of overconsumption.