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Maggie O'Farrell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives de Dr Elaine Canning

Maggie O'Farrell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Autor Dr Elaine Canning
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 ian 2024
Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction, Maggie O'Farrell, this collection covers her nine novels, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, two children's books and features an exclusive interview with the author herself. The first full-length study of O'Farrell's work, this book offers critical explorations from her earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet and most recent best-selling novel, The Marriage Portrait. With a timeline of her life and works, as well as suggested further reading, the themes explored include grief and sacrifice, longing and belonging, trauma, translation, palimpsestic texts and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350325005
ISBN-10: 1350325007
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Brings together emerging and established scholars from across the US and UK who explore a wide range of themes and topics within O'Farrell's work

Notă biografică

Elaine Canning is a writer, editor and public engagement specialist living in Swansea, South Wales, UK. Originally from Belfast, she holds an MA and PhD in Hispanic Studies from Queen's University, Belfast, and an MA in Creative Writing from Swansea University. She is currently Head of Special Projects at Swansea University, which include the Rhys Davies National Short Story Competition and the International Dylan Thomas Prize. She has authored a monograph and papers on Spanish Golden-Age drama and her short stories have appeared in Nation.Cymru and The Lonely Crowd. Editor of Take a Bite: The Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology (2021), New World, New Beginnings: Resilience and Connectivity through Poetry (2021), and Cree: The Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology (2022), she is also the author of a debut novel, The Sandstone City (2022) and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Contributors Chronology of Maggie O'Farrell's Life and Works Introduction - Elaine Canning (Swansea University, UK) In Search of Maggie O'Farrell 1. 'The Space Between': Maggie O'Farrell's The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Susan Alice Fischer, Medgar Evers College/CUNY, USA) 2. Love, Loss and (Be)longing in After You'd Gone and The Distance Between Us (Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK) 3. 'The Women We Become After Children': Palimpsests of the City and the Self in Maggie O'Farrell's The Hand That First Held Mine (Ruth Gilligan, University of Birmingham, UK) 4. Vantage Points: How Maggie O'Farrell Dissects a Marriage by Shifting Points of View in This Must Be the Place (Edward Matthews, San Diego, USA) 5. Lost in Translation: The Dis-Located Structures of Maggie O'Farrell's My Lover's Lover (Sarah Gamble, Swansea University, UK) 6. 'A small victory for Love over Death': the haunted narratives of I Am, I Am, I Am, Instructions for a Heatwave, and The Hand that First Held Mine (Tasha Alden, Aberystwyth University, UK) 7. The taming shrew: Agnes in Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet as (early) modern husbander (Nicholas Taylor-Collins, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK) 8. Filling Historical and Emotional Voids: Hamnet (Laurie Maguire, University of Oxford, UK)9. Remaking the Duchess: Underpainting and Overpainting in The Marriage Portrait (Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK) 10. 'Post-It Baby': An Interview with Maggie O'Farrell (Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK) Bibliography Further ReadingIndex

Recenzii

Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet brought her the critical acclaim she has long deserved, and now this excellent collection of essays brings her the scholarly attention she merits. These essays are theoretically savvy and offer smart but accessible readings that will return readers and scholars to the delights of O'Farrell's work.