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Mary Lou Emery
In this pathfinding study, Mary Lou Emery focuses on Rhys’s handling of tense oppositions, using a Caribbean cultural perspective to replace the mainly European aesthetic, moral, and psychological standards that…
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Julia Straub
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Constance, course: British and American Studies, language: English, abstract…
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Miranda Seymour
An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.
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D. Konzett
This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys. In its…
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This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys.
Jean Rhys
[Quartet’s] abiding power arises from [Jean Rhys’s] ability to convey the complex vectors of desire and repulsion that move between the characters, distorted by the intractable demands of convention, even…
Lucid, exact, and swift…. An essential part of the [Rhys] record. -V. S. Naipaul, New York Review of Books
As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal. - Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your Duck Is My Duck
Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours…
This tour de force (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Gaby Schneidereit
Essay from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0 (B), University of Cambridge (English Department), course: Hauptseminar: Modernism and the City, 9…
V. Burrows
Using cutting-edge cultural and literary theory to examine the knotted mother daughter relations that form the thematic basis of the texts examined, and with close reading and contextualization, this study…
This original and incisive study of the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison uses cutting edge cultural and literary theory to examine the ‘knotted’ mother-daughter relations that…
Rositsa Kronast
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Department fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: HS Travel and…
Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839-45.
"Enthralling.... Seymour powerfully evokes the world from which Rhys never really escaped, one of prejudice, abuse, and abuse's shamefaced offspring, complicity." -James Wood, The New Yorker
An intimate, profoundly moving…
Julius Firmicus Maternus
Julius Firmicus Maternus, a native of Sicily, was a Roman lawyer of the senatorial class. He lived in the first half of the fourth century AD (c.280-c.360). He was also…
Tanja Hamann
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1998 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universitat Siegen (Sprach-, Literatur- und Medienwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Mad and Sad (?)- Victorian Women in Modern Fiction, Sprache: Deutsch…
Jennifer Reuter
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universitat Hamburg, Veranstaltung: English Classics Re-Written?, 29 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Roman Wide Sargasso Sea…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract & Discourses: Translated With Introduction By G. D. H. Cole, Edited By Ernest Rhys This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making…
The first edition of this book gained recognition as the definitive textbook of diabetes epidemiology. The second edition builds on this success, gathering recent information on international trends and data…
