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

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 pl...

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Superior document:Cross cultures ; 110
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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.
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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.