Brian Moore's Eponymous Heroines

Dorota Filipczak

ISBN 10: 3631763433 / ISBN 13: 9783631763438

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Okt 2018, 2018

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Neuware -This feminist study is an innovative reassessment of Brian Moore¿s five novels featuring eponymous heroines. The author reviews previous interpretations, exposing their sexist bias. Highlighting Moore¿s empathetic insights, she also discusses the novelist¿s limitations. She compares Moore¿s heroines to Flaubert¿s Emma Bovary, reinterpreted by Mieke Bal, Tolstoy¿s Anna Karenina revisioned by Aritha van Herk, and to female characters created by Canadian women writers. Rejecting biocriticism, the study focuses on Moore¿s biblical, Victorian and modernist inspirations, and his indebtedness to film. Ideas of female thinkers illuminate the condition of Moore¿s female protagonists. 162 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Brian Moore's Eponymous Heroines
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Okt 2018
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3631763433
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783631763438
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 153 H x 14 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 153 millimètres de hauteur par 14 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 330 grammes

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Synopsis

This feminist study is an innovative reassessment of Brian Moore's five novels featuring eponymous heroines. The author reviews previous interpretations, exposing their sexist bias. Highlighting Moore's empathetic insights, she also discusses the novelist's limitations. She compares Moore's heroines to Flaubert's Emma Bovary, reinterpreted by Mieke Bal, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina revisioned by Aritha van Herk, and to female characters created by Canadian women writers. Rejecting biocriticism, the study focuses on Moore's biblical, Victorian and modernist inspirations, and his indebtedness to film. Ideas of female thinkers illuminate the condition of Moore's female protagonists.

À propos de l?auteur

Dorota Filipczak teaches at the University of Lódź, Poland and has published extensively on Canadian and British writers. She founded and runs Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture. She is the author of seven books of poetry and a member of the Association of Polish Writers.