Alison Lurie: A Critical StudyRodopi, 2000 - 220 Seiten Drawing on personal interviews, manuscript collections, and the author's unpublished writings, Judie Newman offers a comprehensive study of the work of Alison Lurie from her early involvement in the Poets' Theatre to the AIDS comedy of her most recent novel, The Last Resort (1988). In her profound social and intellectual engagement with American Utopianism, from its historical origins through such contemporary manifestations as Walter Benjamin's Hollywood, the American University, feminist theorisations, the religious cult and the gay heterotopia, and in her intertextual reworkings of folk and fairy tale, biography, diary novel, the 'International Theme' and the classic ghost story, Lurie maintains an uncanny ability to serve critical aesthetic purposes within a popular fictional form. Semiotic comedies - comedies of the sign - rather than novels of manners, Lurie's fictions place her squarely within a radical American tradition. |
Inhalt
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Paleface Into Redskin | 142 |
Truth Secrets and Lies | 161 |
The Gay Imaginary | 176 |
Bibliography | 195 |
Index | 216 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adorno Alison Lurie American Angeles artists Barbie become Benjamin biography Brian character Children's Literature Chuck Convers critical culture December Emmy Emmy's Erica fairy tale fantasy February feminist fiction film Foreign Affairs frame fraternity Fred girl Glory Harvard Henry James heterotopia Holman illusion Illyria Imaginary Friends intertextual involved Jacko Janet July Katherine Katherine's Kennan Key West Literary Supplement Little Lord Fauntleroy Lolly London Lorin Jones Love and Friendship Lurie's Lurie's novel Malcolm Bradbury male Mary Ann Mary Ann Doane masternarrative McMann metaphor mirror moral mother narrative nature passive Paul Paul's play plot Poets political Polly Polly's reader realises recognises result Review of Books Roger role Rosemary Rosemary's scene Seekers sense sexual social society sociobiology story student suggests Tates Theatre transformation Truth About Lorin University Press Utopian Verena Vinnie Walter Benjamin Wendy Wilkie Wilkie's woman writing York Review York Times Book Zimmern
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 110 - If I left the woman I really loved — the Great Society — in order to get involved with that bitch of a war on the other side of the world, then I would lose everything at home.
Seite 161 - There are four ways to write a woman's life: the woman herself may tell it, in what she chooses to call an autobiography; she may tell it in what she chooses to call fiction; a biographer, woman or man, may write the woman's life in what is called a biography; or the woman may write her own life in advance of living it, unconsciously, and without recognising or naming the process.
Seite 77 - Kristeva offered the following description of her concept of intertextuality: "tout texte se construit comme mosai'que de citations, tout texte est absorption et transformation d'un autre texte.
Seite 101 - Come what will, I cannot, when I write, think always of myself and of what is elegant and charming in feminity; it is not on those terms, or with such ideas, I ever took pen in hand...
Seite 114 - There is an ideal that has long been basic to the learning process as we have known it, one that stands at the very center of our modern institutions of higher education and that had its origin. I suppose, in the clerical and monastic character of the medieval university. It is the ideal of the association of the process of learning with a certain remoteness from the contemporary scene...
Seite 114 - ... greater attention to the mundane demands of private life. There is a point when we are even impelled to place the needs of children ahead of the dictates of a defiant idealism, and to devote ourselves, pusillanimously, if you will, to the support and rearing of these same children - precisely in order that at some future date they may have the privilege of turning upon us and despising us for the materialistic faintheartedness that made their maturity possible.
Seite 28 - The very simplicity and nakedness of man's life in the primitive ages imply this advantage, at least, that they left him still but a sojourner in nature. When he was refreshed with food and sleep, he* contemplated his journey again. He dwelt, as it were, in a tent in this world, and was either threading the valleys, or crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain-tops.
Seite 50 - Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989), and The Flaneur, ed.
Seite 42 - Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four...