Aesthetics, Values and Autobiography in the Works of Willa Cather and Marguerite Duras

ISBN-13: 9783034319119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 290 str.

Erna Cooper

Opis

This comparative critical study of Willa Cather and Marguerite Duras reveals the blurring of fiction and autobiography in their works, focusing on their concerns for women, children and the socially marginalized. The study highlights issues of power and authority relevant to the study of feminism and women's writing during and after the world wars.

Recenzje

«A beautiful, creative critical study that deserves to become a major reference work for scholars and students of French, English, and comparative literature, and for those interested in women's writing.» (Lisa Downing, French Studies, 27 August 2019)

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Maternity and Landscape - The Mirror Cracked: Reflection, Twinning and Separation - Economics, Value and Compromise - The Question of Autobiography - Woman and the Frame: Sight, Sound and Perception.

O autorze

Erna Cooper pursued her postgraduate studies in French and English literature at the University of Oxford, where she was nominated «proxime accessit» for the Rex Warner Literary Prize at Wadham College. She has published short stories with Levure Littéraire, contributed to an encyclopaedia series on French-American relations, and written on Irish, English and French poetry as well as medical and trauma narratives for such publications as World Literature Today and Cultural Weekly. She has also produced theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, written and directed a short-subject film that debuted at Pathé Studios in Paris, and worked as a French-to-English translator for The Washington Post.