| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 168 pages) |
| Contents |
Introductory: Jean Rhys and the Landscape of Emotion -- Voyage in the Dark: Propitiating the Avengers -- After Leaving Mr Mackenzie: The Search for Maternal Presence -- Quartet: A Constellation of Desires -- Good Morning, Midnight: A Story of Soul Murder -- Wide Sargasso Sea: The Transforming Vision -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
Jean Rhys is widely credited for exposing issues of gender, nationality, race, and class in technically sophisticated, arresting narratives. Her lifelong exploration of the dynamics of the human psyche has, however, gone unrecognized. This examination places Rhys' fiction for the first time within the context of theories that reflect the interrelated perspectives of modern psychoanalysis. In clarifying accounts of many approaches that are new to literary scholars, as well as those that display the rich legacy of Freudian thought, Simpson shows that the paradigms of psychoanalysis illuminate the interpretation of Rhys' art. With insightful references to the short stories and close readings of her five novels, this study testifies to a remarkable achievement as Rhys recorded, with unflinching candor, the powerful drama of emotional life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-162) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rhys, Jean -- Criticism and interpretation
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Rhys, Jean -- Knowledge -- Psychology
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| SUBJECT |
Rhys, Jean fast |
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Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Psychology in literature.
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Literary essays.
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Literary theory.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Psychological fiction, English
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Psychology
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Psychology in literature
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Psychoanalyse.
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Romans.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781403978455 |
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140397845X |
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1281363901 |
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9781281363909 |
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9781403966131 |
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1403966133 |
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