Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction

Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction
Title Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction PDF eBook
Author Coulson Victoria Coulson
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 214
Release 2020-09-21
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1474480527

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Fuses historical and psychoanalytic perspectives to offer a provocative and original analysis of Elizabeth Bowen's fictionThe first major analysis of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction to appear since 2004Substantial, in-depth and distinctive interpretation of her novels and short storiesLiterary analysis informed by biographical, cultural and political contextualisationThis book provides a new account of Bowen's fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen's virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender. Focusing on the relationship between Bowen's work and the socio-political matrix from which it emerges, Coulson presents a pyschoanalytic literary interpretation informed by biographical, cultural and political contextualisation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen
Title Elizabeth Bowen PDF eBook
Author Maud Ellmann
Publisher
Pages 264
Release 2003
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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This study offers an authoritative introduction to Bowen's works, revealing both their pleasures for the fiction-addict and their fascinations for the literary critic, theorist, and historian.

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen
Title Elizabeth Bowen PDF eBook
Author Patricia Laurence
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 366
Release 2019-12-03
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3030264157

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Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters the popular image of Bowen as a mannered, reserved Anglo-Irish writer and presents her as a bold, independent woman who took risks and made her own rules in life and writing. This biography distinguishes itself from others in the depth of research into the life experiences that fueled Bowen’s writing: her espionage for the British Ministry of Information in neutral Ireland, 1940-1941, and the devoted circle of friends, lovers, intellectuals and writers whom she valued: Isaiah Berlin, William Plomer, Maurice Bowra, Stuart Hampshire, Charles Ritchie, Sean O’Faolain, Virginia Woolf, Rosamond Lehmann, and Eudora Welty, among others. The biography also demonstrates how her feelings of irresolution about national identity and gender roles were dispelled through her writing. Her vivid fiction, often about girls and women, is laced with irony about smooth social surfaces rent by disruptive emotion, the sadness of beleaguered adolescents, the occurrence of cultural dislocation, historical atmosphere, as well as undercurrents of violence in small events, and betrayal and disappointment in romance. Her strong visual imagination—so much a part of the texture of her writing—traces places, scenes, landscapes, and objects that subliminally reveal hidden aspects of her characters. Though her reputation faltered in the 1960s-1970s given her political and social conservatism, now, readers are discovering her passionate and poetic temperament and writing as well as the historical consciousness behind her worldly exterior and writing.

The Last Day at Bowen's Court

The Last Day at Bowen's Court
Title The Last Day at Bowen's Court PDF eBook
Author Eibhear Walshe
Publisher
Pages
Release 2020-05-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781999997083

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The Last Day at Bowen's Court deals with the life of the Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen, her time in London during the Second World War and her 'reporting' on Irish neutrality for the Ministry of Information. At the centre of the novel is her Blitz love affair with the Canadian diplomat, Charles Ritchie, a wartime romance that inspired her most famous novel, The Heat of the Day, a gripping story about espionage and loyalty that became a best-seller. The novel is told from the point of view of Bowen herself, and also from that of her lover Charles Ritchie, her husband Alan Cameron and Ritchie's wife Sylvia. It is set in wartime London, Dublin and North Cork, and deals with the private and public conflicts of love and of national identity in a time of upheaval and liberation. At the centre of the novel is a portrait of Elizabeth Bowen, one of Ireland's most influential writers.

Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction

Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction
Title Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction PDF eBook
Author Victoria Coulson
Publisher
Pages 240
Release 2022-08-18
Genre
ISBN 9781474480505

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This book provides a new account of Bowen's fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen's virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender.

The Last September

The Last September
Title The Last September PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher
Pages 304
Release 1960
Genre English fiction
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The Shadowy Third

The Shadowy Third
Title The Shadowy Third PDF eBook
Author Julia Parry
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
Pages 0
Release 2022
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780715654491

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Critically acclaimed, this unique and compelling personal biography uncovers the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents.