Brian Moore's Eponymous Heroines: Representations of Women and Authorial Boundaries

ISBN-13: 9783631763438 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 162 str.

Dorota Filipczak

Opis

This feminist study is an innovative reassessment of Brian Moore's five novels featuring eponymous heroines. The author reviews previous interpretations, exposing their sexist bias. Highlighting Moore's empathetic insights, she also discusses the novelist's limitations. She compares Moore's heroines to Flaubert's Emma Bovary, reinterpreted by Mieke Bal, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina revisioned by Aritha van Herk, and to female characters created by Canadian women writers. Rejecting biocriticism, the study focuses on Moore's biblical, Victorian and modernist inspirations, and his indebtedness to film. Ideas of female thinkers illuminate the condition of Moore's female protagonists.

Spis treści

Feminist criticism - Representations of women in literature - Women in the Bible -Comparative literature - Female and feminist thinkers - Stereotyping - Gender issue - Sexually specific violence - Stalking - Women and colonialism - Women in Northern Ireland - Contemporary Canadian literature - British literature (Victorian and modernist)

O autorze

Dorota Filipczak teaches at the University of Lódz, Poland and has published extensively on Canadian and British writers. She founded and runs Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture. She is the author of seven books of poetry and a member of the Association of Polish Writers.