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Janet Frame in focus : women analyze the works of the New Zealand writer / edited by Josephine A. McQuail ; foreword by Patricia Moran.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.3.F7 Z736 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frame, Janet--Criticism and interpretation.
- Frame, Janet.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
- Summary:
- "New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924-2004) during her lifetime published 11 novels, three collections of short stories, a volume of poetry and a children's book. Presented at the 2014 Northeast Modern Language Association convention, these essays focus on Frame's autobiography, short stories and novels"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Autobiography
- Janet Frame's New Zealand Autobiography: A Postcolonial Odyssey / Suzette A. Henke Henke, Suzette A. 14
- A Soldier's Daughter: The Autobiographies and Autobiographical Fiction of Janet Frame and Doris Lessing / Cyrena Mazlin Mazlin, Cyrena 39
- Deriding the I: Tales of Darkness and Laughter in An Angel at My Table / Aurelia Mouzet Mouzet, Aurelia 62
- Part 2 Short Stories
- Strategies of Avoidance in The Lagoon and Other Stories / Claire Bazin Bazin, Claire 84
- Lagoonization: The Aesthetics of Insularity and Porosity in The Lagoon and Other Stories / Jennifer Boum Make Make, Jennifer Boum 95
- Part 3 Novels
- Faces in the Water: "The Feast of Fools" or the Rewriting of the Carnivalesque as Serving Thanatos / Marion Clavier Clavier, Marion 110
- Men Without Women: Daughter Buffalo and Female Victimization / Josephine A. McQuail McQuail, Josephine A. 127
- Distanciation or the Poetry of Loneliness in Towards Another Summer / Manon-Lili Morand Morand, Manon-Lili 144
- Illumination and the Silver Palm: The Pattern of Three and the Quest for Identity in The Edge of the Alphabet / Jennifer Rideout Rideout, Jennifer 158
- Janet Frame's New Gothic: Language in A State of Siege / Josephine A. McQuail McQuail, Josephine A. 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476669731
- 1476669732
- OCLC:
- 1010692804
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