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Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393358124
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Voyage in the Dark written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prescient and technically astonishing." --Geoff Dyer, GQ
Author : Nancy R. Harrison
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469639823
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women's Text written by Nancy R. Harrison and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a woman's writing different from a man's? Many scholars -- and readers -- think so, even thought here has been little examination of the way women's novels enact the theories that women theorists have posited. In Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women's Text, Nancy Harrison makes an important contribution to the exchange of ideas on the writing practice of women and to the scholarship on Jean Rhys. Harrison determines what the form of a well-made women's novel discloses about the conditions of women's communication and the literary production that emerges from them. Devoting the first part of her book to theory and general commentary on Rhys's approach to writing, she then offers perceptive readings of Voyage in the Dark, an early Rhys novel, and Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys's masterpiece written twenty-seven years later. She shows how Rhys uses the terms of a man's discourse, then introduces a woman's (or several women's) discourse as a compelling counterpoint that, in time, becomes prominent and gives each novel its thematic impact. In presenting a continuing dialogue with the dominant language and at the same time making explicit the place of a woman's own language, Rhys gives us a paradigm for a new and basically moral text. Originally published in 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : David Plante
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681371502
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Difficult Women written by David Plante and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades. Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist himself. The book begins with David Plante’s portrait of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication of The Wide Sargasso Sea, after years of silence that had made Rhys’s great novels of the 1920s and ’30s as good as unknown, had at last gained genuine recognition for her. Rhys, however, can hardly be said to be enjoying her new fame. A terminal alcoholic, she curses and staggers and rants like King Lear on the heath in the hotel room that she has made her home, while Plante looks impassively on. Sonia Orwell is his second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless victim of her beauty and social prowess, while the unflappable, brilliant, and impossibly opinionated Germaine Greer sails through the final pages, ever ready to set the world, and any erring companion, right.
Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393303940
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Good Morning, Midnight written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman encounters a life filled with desires and emotions when she returns to Paris after suffering from a bout of depression and alcoholism in London.
Author : Paula Le Gallez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349106771
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The Rhys Woman written by Paula Le Gallez and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader-based textual analysis of the work of Jean Rhys. The author generates new readings of two of the short stories and all five of the novels. By focusing on character, she disagrees with those critics who see each heroine as part of a single character, the "Rhys woman".
Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393308808
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"
Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : John Curley & Associates
ISBN 13 : 9780745123189
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Quartet written by Jean Rhys and published by John Curley & Associates. This book was released on 1928 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marya Zelli, penniless in Paris, is befriended by Hugh and Lois Heider, but their generosity proves to be ambiguous, and Marya finds herself entangled in a frightening web.
Author : Helen Nebeker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jean Rhys, Woman in Passage written by Helen Nebeker and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393315479
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after being dropped by her latest lover, she visits London to see her ailing mother and meets up with her distrustful sister, Norah. This is a haunting picture of two desperate women in a desperate predicament.
Author : Lilian Pizzichini
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079392
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys written by Lilian Pizzichini and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking biography of a psychologically traumatized novelist who forever changed the way we look at women in fiction. Jean Rhys (1890–1979) is best known for her 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea. A prequel to Jane Eyre, Rhys’s revolutionary work reimagined the story of Bertha Rochester—the misunderstood “madwoman in the attic” who was driven to insanity by cruelties beyond her control. The Blue Hour performs a similar exhumation of Rhys’s life, which was haunted by demons from within and without. Its examination of Rhys’s pain and loss charts her desperate journey from the jungles of Dominica to a British boarding school, and then into an adult life scarred by three failed marriages, the deaths of her two children, and her long battle with alcoholism.A mesmerizing evocation of a fragile and brilliant mind, The Blue Hour explores the crucial element that ultimately spared Rhys from the fate of her most famous protagonist: a genius that rescued her, again and again, from the abyss.
Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141984544
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Smile Please written by Jean Rhys and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140183443
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Quartet written by Jean Rhys and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780140183450
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Sleep it Off Lady written by Jean Rhys and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1976 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Veronica Marie Gregg
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469617358
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination written by Veronica Marie Gregg and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the foremost white West Indian writer of this century and author of the widely acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1890-1979) has attracted much critical attention, most often from the perspective of gender analysis. Veronica Gregg extends our critical appreciation of Rhys by analyzing the complex relationship between Rhys's identity and the structures of her fiction, and she reveals the ways in which this relationship is connected to the history of British colonization of the West Indies. Gregg focuses on Rhys as a writer--a Creole woman analyzing the question of identity through literary investigations of race, gender, and colonialism. Arguing that history itself can be a site where different narratives collide and compete, she explores Rhys's rewriting of the historical discourses of the West Indies and of European canonical texts, such as Rhys's treatment of Jane Eyre in Wide Sargasso Sea. Gregg's analysis also reveals the precision with which Rhys crafted her work and her preoccupation with writing as performance.
Author : Miranda Seymour
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324006137
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys written by Miranda Seymour and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction—above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea—that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica, remains too little explored, until now. In I Used to Live Here Once, Miranda Seymour sheds new light on the artist whose proud and fiercely solitary life profoundly informed her writing. Rhys experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil, all of which contributed to the “Rhys woman” of her oeuvre. Today, readers still intuitively relate to her unforgettable characters, vulnerable, watchful, and often alarmingly disaster-prone outsiders; women with a different way of moving through the world. And yet, while her works often contain autobiographical material, Rhys herself was never a victim. The figure who emerges for Seymour is cultured, self-mocking, unpredictable—and shockingly contemporary. Based on new research in the Caribbean, a wealth of never-before-seen papers, journals, letters, and photographs, and interviews with those who knew Rhys, I Used to Live Here Once is a luminous and penetrating portrait of a fascinatingly elusive artist.
Author : Erica Johnson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474404561
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Jean Rhys written by Erica Johnson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents new critical perspectives on Jean Rhys in relation to modernism, postcolonialism, and theories of affect.Jean Rhys (1890-1979) is the author of five novels and over seventy short stories. She has played a major figure in debates attempting to establish the parameters of postcolonial and particularly Caribbean studies, and although she has long been seen as a modernist writer, she has also been marginalized as one who is not quite in, yet not quite out, either. The 10 newly commissioned essays and introduction collected in this volume demonstrate Jean Rhyss centrality to modernism and to postcolonial literature alike by addressing her stories and novels from the 1920s and 1930s, including Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, and Good Morning, Midnight, as well as her later bestseller, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The volume establishes Rhys as a major author with relevance to a number of different critical discourses, and includes a path-breaking section on affect theory that shows how contemporary interest in Rhys correlates with the recent 'affective turn' in the social sciences and humanities. As this collection shows, strangely haunting and deeply unsettling, Rhyss portraits of dispossessed women living in the early and late twentieth-century continue to trouble easy conceptualisations and critical categories.Key Features:- New and original work on Jean Rhyss fiction and short stories, highlighting key areas of her work.- Contributors area leading scholars on Jean Rhys from the US, the UK, and Australia, including Mary Lou Emery, Elaine Savory, John J. Su, Maroula Joannou, H. Adlai Murdoch, Rishona Zimring, Carine Mardorossian, Patricia Moran, Erica L. Johnson, and Sue Thomas.- Organised around 3 important themes: Rhys and modernism, postcolonial Rhys, and affective RhysPatricia Moran is the author of Word of Mouth: Body/Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf; Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma; and co-editor of Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in 19th and 20th-Century Womens Writing and The Female Face of Shame. Formerly Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, she is now Lecturer in English at the University of Limerick.Erica L. Johnson is an Associate Professor of English at Pace University in New York. She is the author of Caribbean Ghostwriting (2009) and Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia DellOro (2003), and is the co-editor with Patricia Moran of The Female Face of Shame (2013).
Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780141196206
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Mini Modern Classics La Grosse Fifi written by Jean Rhys and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These four haunting stories from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea capture moments in the lives of European dilettantes, ingénues, businessmen, soldiers and artists at a time when the world was enjoying freedom after war. But with freedom comes the greater opportunity for self-destruction, and Rhys is at her redolent best when writing about the desires of people striving unsuccessfully after happiness.
