Frameworks : : contemporary criticism on Janet Frame / / edited by Jan Cronin and Simone Drichel.

• Superior document: Cross cultures ; 110
• TeilnehmendeR: Cronin, Jan S.; Drichel, Simone.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures 110.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 227 pages).
• Notes: New Zealand author.

Janet Frame’s work is notorious for the demands it makes on reader and critic. This collection of nine new essays by international Frame specialists draws on a range of critical frameworks to explore fresh ways of looking at Frame’s fiction, poetry, and autobiography. At the same time, the essays plug into the energy of Frame’s work to challenge our thinking within and beyond these frameworks. Frameworks offers a unique perspective on Frame studies today, showcasing its major concerns as well as heralding new Frame narratives for the decade ahead. Mindful of preceding Frame criticism, these essays use their contemporary vantage-point to recast seminal questions about the relationship between Janet Frame’s work and its critical contexts. Each of the essays makes a case for framing her work in a particular way, but all are characterized by self-reflexivity regarding their own critical practice and the relationship they assume between exegetical framework and Frame’s work. Underlying this practice, and contained within the pun of the title, are the elementary-sounding yet fundamental questions of Frame studies: How does Frame’s work work ? And how do we work with her work?

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Through a Glass Darkly: Reading the Enigmatic Frame / Jan Cronin -- Playing with Freud: Radical Narcissism and Intertextuality in Frame’s Intensive Care and Daughter Buffalo / Jennifer Lawn -- Self Possession: ‘Things’ and Janet Frame’s Autobiography / Lydia Wevers -- Beyond Analogy: Janet Frame and Existential Thought / Anna Smaill -- A Home in Language: The (Meta)Physical World of Janet Frame’s Poetry / Valérie Baisnée -- “Turning the stone of being”: Janet Frame’s Migrant Poetic / Isabel Michell -- “Conquest of surfaces”: Aesthetic and Political Violence in the Work of Janet Frame / Marc Delrez -- Janet Frame’s Radical Thought: Symbolic Exchange and Seduction in Living in the Maniototo and The Carpathians / Chris Prentice -- “Signposts to a world that is not even mentioned”: Janet Frame’s Ethical Transcendence / Simone Drichel -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.