Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women's Text
Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women's Text

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Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women's Text

Book: Paperback 01 - 07 - 2009

Product ID: 4430709

Condition: New
Publisher : The University of North Carolina Press

ISBN-10 : 0807856428

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Product Description 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. Review Harrison's critical analysis of Jean Rhys's novels brings together an assessment and restatement of some important feminist literary criticism as grounding and preparation for a novel-by-novel discussion of Rhys's writing. Unlike some other recent critics of Rhys, Harrison is concerned, first of all, to make clear the nature of writing in its connection with gender issues. Only after defining texts in relation to such considerations does she go on to consider previous critical readings of Rhys, including V.S. Pritchett's and others. Harrison notes that Rhys, like other women writers, has been read by critics and reviewers against a canon shaped by male values. . . . The close readings of the novels follow. To sense the force of those readings, however, one should first give a close reading to Harrison's early chapters, which lay the groundwork for her critical readings and interpretations." -- Choice Harrison's most original contribution to the study of Rhys's work is in her powerful demonstration of the tragic incompatibility of Antoinette and Rochester in Wide Sargasso Sea. . . . Many new directions are suggested . . . by Harrison's impressive appraisal of Rhys's work. . . . [T]he book as a whole is powerfully suggestive, putting Rhys firmly on the map of women writers whose work amply repays painstaking critical attention." -- Times Literary Supplement Review Brilliant as textual analysis, provocative as a contribution to feminist aesthetics, [this book] makes the narrative strategies of women novelists speak their politics.--Betsy Draine

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