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Janet Frame’s World of Books / Janet Wilson, Chris Ringrose, Patricia Neville
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neville, Patricia, Author.
- Series:
- Studies in world literature ; Volume 8.
- Studies in World Literature 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literaturwissenschaft.
- Janet Frame.
- Literature.
- Studies.
- Studien.
- Local Subjects:
- Literaturwissenschaft.
- Janet Frame.
- Literature.
- Studies.
- Studien.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hannover ibidem 2020
- Biography/History:
- Patricia Neville, PhD, read English Literature for her first degree at London University, Goldsmiths' College, and then became a teacher of English in secondary and adult education. She first encountered Frame's novels while on a holiday in New Zealand and was inspired to embark on her own study of Frame's reading patterns and literary borrowings. Her doctoral study on Frame's novels for the Open University took her back to New Zealand for archival research. This book is the outcome of her explorations, scrutinies, and analyses.
- Summary:
- This study investigates how Janet Frame weaves together literary sources from her extensive reading to create a web of intertextual relationships. Patricia Neville traces Frame’s passion for books beginning with her childhood and earliest published work in the Otago Daily Times. Drawing on new research and through close readings of Frame’s novels, she discusses the effects of Frame’s borrowings from the Bible and Shakespeare and from writing from New Zealand, Britain, France, and the USA. A fascinating read not only for scholars, but for all admirers of Janet Frame’s fiction.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Intertextuality
- Mikhail Bakhtin and Polyphony
- Janet Frame and Intertextuality
- Chapter One: Janet Frame's Books
- Leaving New Zealand
- Early Years and Dot's Little Folk
- School Days
- At College and In Hospital
- Later Reading
- Chapter Two: Poets and Poetry
- The Importance of Poetry
- Poetry at School and College
- Poetic Visionaries: Blake, Yeats, Rilke and Dylan Thomas and their Celebration of the Natural World
- The English 19th Century Romantics and A State of Siege
- New Zealand Poets
- Walt Whitman, Frame's America and Daughter Buffalo
- Chapter Three: Frame's Use of Poetry in the Novels
- Prose, Poetry and Poetic Prose
- Sylvia Plath and Intensive Care
- Chapter Four: The Bible-Eden and Apocalypse
- Biblical Poetics
- Ethics and Spirituality
- Biblical Narratives
- Chapter Five: Engaging with Shakespeare
- Upon the Heath
- Wild Waters
- Shakespearean Dreams
- Chapter Six: Tending the Myths
- Folklore
- Fairy Tales
- Anglo Saxon Poetry and The Adaptable Man
- The Ballad Tradition and Intensive Care
- Myth and Survival
- Memory, Language and The Carpathians
- Afterword
- Index
- Selected Bibliography.
- ISBN:
- 3-8382-7242-0
- Publisher Number:
- 9783838272429
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