| Description |
334 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-325) and index. |
| Contents |
Rebecca West's shadowy other / Phyllis Lassner -- Rebecca West in South Africa : the limits of liberalism / Loretta Stec -- The Azev affair and The birds fall down : a true story on a parallel universe? / Peter G. Christensen -- Performing women in The fountain overflows / Cheryl A. Wilson -- Cordelia and Mrs. Crosthwaite : an unpublished chapter of This real night / Ann V. Norton -- Music and the feminine art of detail in Rebecca West's Harriet Hume / Francesca Frigerio -- Sheepish modernism : Rebecca West, the Adam brothers, and the taxonomies of criticism / Debra Rae Cohen -- Rebecca West, aestheticism, and the legacy of Oscar Wilde / Margaret D. Stetz -- Versions and palimpsests : Rebecca West's The sentinel, Adela, and The judge / Kathryn Laing -- Renegotiating the private and the public divide : reconsidering Rebecca West's The judge -- Rebecca West's "strange necessity" : literature, love, and the good / Nattie Golubov -- Rebecca West's philosophy of history and the critique of postmodernism / Bernard Schweizer. |
| Summary |
"Rebecca West Today is the first-ever essay collection on this important twentieth-century artist and thinker. It is organized in a multidisciplinary fashion, with contributions grouped into four methodological concentrations: historicism, gender studies, textual analysis, and philosophical approaches. This procedure demonstrates that West's work is susceptible to a variety of approaches and critical methods, and it helps to identify a core of issues that interest scholars today. Significantly, critics are more than ever attracted to West's fiction, a trend that reverses the earlier tendency to disparage her novel and short stories in favor of her nonfiction. |
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Almost the entire corpus of West's fiction receives attention in this volume (with the exception of The Thinking Reed, which is in itself a telling fact)."--BOOK JACKET. |
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West, Rebecca, 1892-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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West, Rebecca, 1892-1983 -- Political and social views.
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West, Rebecca, 1892-1983 -- Aesthetics.
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Politics in literature.
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Feminism in literature.
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Philosophy in literature.
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| Added Author |
Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Rebecca West today. Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2006 (OCoLC)607862205 |
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Online version: Rebecca West today. Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2006 (OCoLC)608985160 |
| ISBN |
0874139503 (alkaline paper) |
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9780874139501 (alkaline paper) |
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