The secret country : : decoding Jayne Anne Phillips' cryptic fiction / / Sarah Robertson.
The Secret Country is the first monograph on the work of the contemporary American novelist Jayne Anne Phillips. Through detailed and innovative textual analysis this study considers the southern aspects of Phillips’ writing. Robertson demonstrates the importance of Phillips’ place within the southe...
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| Superior document: | Costerus, new ser. 165 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Costerus ;
new ser., v. 165. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Prologue
- Accessing the Secret Country
- Nameless Implications: The Haunting Vestiges of the Paternal Past in Machine Dreams
- A House Divided: Class Divergence in Machine Dreams
- Preparing for Take-Off: Autochthony and Flight in Machine Dreams
- Structures of Retrospect: The Inescapable Past in Fast Lanes
- Dislocations: Retracing the Erased in Shelter
- Fantastical Remembrances: Sexual Desire in Shelter
- Leaving the Fatherland: Emasculation and Exodus in Shelter
- The Experience of Separation in MotherKind
- Textured Memories: The Remnants of a Paternal Past in MotherKind
- Almost Magical: Once upon a time … in MotherKind
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.