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Anais Nin and the remaking of self : gender, modernism, and narrative identity
- Title
- Anais Nin and the remaking of self : gender, modernism, and narrative identity / Diane Richard-Allerdyce.
- Author
- Allerdyce, Diane, 1958-
- Publication
- DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, 1998.
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- Description
- viii, 215 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Anais Nin is simultaneously one of the most interesting and troubling figures of the Modernist period. Though her provocative diaries, documenting relationships with such renowned figures as Henry Miller and Otto Rank, secured her place in literary history, Nin's writing has yet to attract the critical attention it deserves.
- With one of the first critical studies to treat Nin's work as a unified whole, Richard-Allerdyce reclaims Nin's writings as she traces the development of Nin's theories of gender and the creative self through her experimental fiction, criticism, and diaries.
- Nin's struggle for success is presented as part of a long and complex history - that of women's effort to find a means of expressing female experiences in writing. For Nin, the struggle included an attempt to embody a "feminine mode of being" in her writing. Because Nin herself stressed the centrality of gender to her identity, her relation to women's studies and her treatment of gender provide the basis for understanding her work.
- Subject
- Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977 > Criticism and interpretation
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
- Psychoanalysis and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Psychological fiction, American > History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) > United States
- Sex (Psychology) in literature
- Gender identity in literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Self in literature
- Fiction > Technique
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-203) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Narrative Openings: D. H. Lawrence and House of Incest -- 2. Breaking Silence: Transference and Mourning in Winter of Artifice -- 3. Exile and (Re-)Birth in Under a Glass Bell -- 4. Repetition and Resistance in Ladders to Fire, Children of The Albatross, and The Four-Chambered Heart -- 5. Catharsis and Healing in A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur, and Collages -- 6. Narrative Recovery and Narrative Authenticity in The Diary of Anais Nin.
- ISBN
- 087580232X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97014215
- OCLC
- 36727769
- ocm36727769
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries