| Description |
1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Series |
Costerus, 0165-9618 ; new ser., 199 |
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 199. 0165-9618
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Willa Muir; Brief Chronology; Chapter 1: The Writer and the Translator; Chapter 2: The Writer as Mother; Chapter 3: Belonging to the Universe; Margaret Laurence; Brief Chronology; Chapter 4: Motherhood as Gift and Trap; Chapter 5: The Dynamic Concept of Place; Chapter 6: The Craft of the Writer: Vulnerability and Power; Janet Frame; Brief Chronology; Chapter 7: A Place for the Self; Chapter 8: The Writer's Vocation; Chapter 9: In Search of Loneliness; Conclusion; Appendixes |
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Appendix 1: Willa Muir's TranslationsAppendix 2: Interview with Professor Clara Thomas; Appendix 3: Archives Consulted; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book examines the literary construction of personal identity through autobiographical narratives by three significant writers analysed together for the first time: the Scottish Willa Muir (1890-1970), the Canadian Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), and the New Zealander Janet Frame (1924-2004). These apparently dissimilar authors suffered not only geographical, but also political marginality: they were women from the working-class or struggling middle-class, striving to be considered as professional writers, and emerging from countries that might be felt to be under the shadows of economic an |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Muir, Willa, 1890-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Laurence, Margaret -- Criticism and interpretation
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Frame, Janet -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Frame, Janet fast |
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Laurence, Margaret fast |
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Muir, Willa, 1890-1970 fast |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- Women authors.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Autobiography -- Women authors
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401209175 |
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9401209170 |
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