| Description |
xvii, 229 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 46 |
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Contributions to the study of world literature,
0738-9345 ; no. 46.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index. |
| Contents |
Anna and Demeter: the myth of The good mother / Barbara F. McManus -- Ann of ages / C. W. Sullivan III -- Maternity as destiny: the Old Testament Hannahs / Pearl David Lauffer -- John Berryman's Anne / Roberta White -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child: Austen's Anne Elliot and Freud's Anna O. / Diana Postlethwaite -- Trollope's Lady Anna: "Corrupt relations" or "Erotic faith"? / Deborah D. Morse -- Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: a palindrome, a paradox, beginning as she ends / Abby H. P. Werlock -- Re-visioning literary motherhood: Elizabeth Bowen's The death of the heart and Elizabeth Jane Howard's Odd girl out / Phyllis Lassner -- Ana, again and again: love, memory, and the self in Sean O'Faolain / Mary Rose Sullivan -- Mothers and lovers: Edith Wharton's The reef and The mother's recompense / Nancy Walker -- The mother mirror in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Gertrude Stein's The good Anna / Diane Simmons -- Spiritual maternity and self-fulfillment in Arnold Bennett's Ann of the five towns / Helen Pike Bauer -- Anna's daughter: Mazie Holbrook in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio / Mary DeForest -- Anny Annas in Finnegan's wake? Manny! / Dee Goertz -- The mother of them all: Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Dee Seligman -- "For we swallow magic and we deliver Anne": Anne Sexton's use of her name / Karen Alkalay-Gut -- "Anna, Anna, I am Anna": the Annas of Doris Lessing's The golden notebook / Claire Sprague -- The goddess resurrected in Mary Lavin's short fiction / Martha M. Vertreace -- The quest for the perfect mother in Toni Morrison's Sula / Margaret Schramm -- The autobiographical Anna: Mona Simpson's Anywhere but here and Susanna Moore's My old sweetheart / Kim Lacy Rogers -- Controlling the past and the future: two-headed Anna in Ellen Gilchrist's The Anna papers / Jane Taylor McDonnell -- Stephen King's dark and terrible mother, Annie Wilkes / Katherine K. Gottschalk. |
| Subject |
Anne (Name) in literature.
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Names in literature.
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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| Added Author |
Pearlman, Mickey, 1938-
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| ISBN |
0313275858 alkaline paper |
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