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The Fiction of Valerie Martin : An Introduction /
In the first book-length study of Valerie Martin's fiction, Veronica Makowsky explores the work of this lauded, but often overlooked, contemporary novelist. Winner of the Orange Prize for her novel Property (2003), Martin also won the Kafka Prize for Mary Reilly (1990), which was then translate...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2016]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : The figure in the carpet
- Love and set in motion : tedious transposition to tentative transformation
- Alexandra : Gothic parody, perpetual quandary
- A recent martyr : renouncing martyrdom, choosing life
- The consolation of nature : women, nature, death
- Mary Reilly : empathy as ephemeral empowerment
- The great divorce : the consequences of nature
- Italian fever : art for life or life for art?
- Salvation : scenes from the life of St. Francis : the art of life and death
- Property : the owner owned
- Trespass : electing encroachment or empathy
- The unfinished novel and other stories and the confessions of Edward Day : the döppelgangers of art and life
- The ghost of the Mary Celeste : imaginative voyaging on uncharted seas
- Sea lovers : metamorphoses in nature and art.