Dangerous writing : the autobiographies of Willa Muir, Margaret Laurence and Janet Frame /
This book examines the literary construction of personal identity through autobiographical narratives by three significant writers analysed together for the first time: the Scottish Willa Muir (1890-1970), the Canadian Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), and the New Zealander Janet Frame (1924-2004). The...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2013.
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Colección: | Costerus ;
new ser., v. 199. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book examines the literary construction of personal identity through autobiographical narratives by three significant writers analysed together for the first time: the Scottish Willa Muir (1890-1970), the Canadian Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), and the New Zealander Janet Frame (1924-2004). These apparently dissimilar authors suffered not only geographical, but also political marginality: they were women from the working-class or struggling middle-class, striving to be considered as professional writers, and emerging from countries that might be felt to be under the shadows of economic an. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789401209175 9401209170 |
ISSN: | 0165-9618 ; |