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Elizabeth Bowen : a reputation in writing

Title
Elizabeth Bowen : a reputation in writing / Renée C. Hoogland.
Author
Hoogland, Renée C., 1960-
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Description
xix, 369 pages; 22 cm.
Series Statement
The Cutting edge: lesbian life and literature
Uniform Title
Cutting edge (New York, N.Y.)
Subject
  • Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Lesbians' writings, English > History and criticism
  • Feminism and literature > Ireland > History > 20th century
  • Women and literature > Ireland > History > 20th century
  • Lesbians > Ireland > Intellectual life
  • Ireland > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Karla Jay -- 1. Introduction: Elizabeth Bowen - A Story of Sorts -- 2. Technologies of Female Adolescence. The Ideological Timespace of The Last September (1919). The Interpellation of the Adolescent -- 3. Authoring Sexual Identities. Sexual Position(ing)s. Interpretation, Transference, and Authorial Control -- 4. Histories of Narrative Desire. The Fictitious Reality of The Heat of the Day (1949). The Historical Inscription of the Self -- 5. The Discourse of Suspension. Heterosexual Materials. Discourse in Crisis -- 6. Subtexts of Psychosexuality. The Inscription of Creation in Eva Trout (1969). (Pre)oedipal Love and the Symbolic Mother -- 7. Sexual/Textual Transgressions. Scriptural Encodings. The Mother's Tongue and Female Authorship -- 8. From Marginality to Ex-centricity. (Post)modernist Identifications. Sexual In/Difference. Ex-centric Interpellations.
ISBN
  • 0814735010 (cloth)
  • 0814735118 (pbk.)
LCCN
93049675
OCLC
  • 29635950
  • ocm29635950
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries