Combining close textual analysis with theoretically informed readings, this group of international scholars explores how Bowen's disruptive and deeply unconventional narratives encourage us to read her as a one of the most innovative writers of modern fiction, a true progenitor of modernism.
These original and illuminating essays cite and expound the dynamics of Bowen's fiction's originality and value. While some essays explore her fictional narratives' Beckettian affinities, her narratives' relation to the Gothic, and the multiple ways her work challenges the norms and...
Combining close textual analysis with theoretically informed readings, this group of international scholars explores how Bowen's disruptive and deeply...