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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Elizabeth Bowen"”.
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Elizabeth Bowen and the art of visuality
This thesis is the first sustained assessment of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing from a visual perspective. By first compiling a visual biography of the author, I argue that Bowen’s responsiveness to art, her relationships with artists, and her knowledge of modern and traditional aesthetics are formative …
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The “Presence of Movement” in the Works of Elizabeth Bowen
… movement and the relationship between them in Elizabeth Bowen’s work to examine how she registers the shifting material, social, cultural, and psychological landscapes of the twentieth century. The first chapter examines how a rhetoric of “overflow” permeates Bowen’s interwar writing. By …
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Created Spaces: Domestic Myth-Making in the Novels of Elizabeth Bowen
Twentieth-century author, Elizabeth Bowen writes often of children in her various works, yet her novels and short stories could hardly be considered for the consumption or pleasure of a young audience. Nevertheless, there exists an exception within her oeuvre - The Good Tiger, a colorful and …
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Unlived Lives in Twentieth Century Narrative: Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, Kazuo Ishiguro
In her 1955 novel A World of Love, Elizabeth Bowen considered the effects of a fifty-year period in which the outbreak of two world wars had reconfigured radically the expected course of personal and national history. Those alive at the mid-century, she observed, were consequently more aware than …
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Rules of Engagement: Modernism's Impersonal Interior
… found in work by writers such as H.D., Elizabeth Bowen and Mary Butts discern the ethical dangers of this impersonal collapse of subject and object by engaging the question of how to preserve meaningful aesthetic space. The answers often lie in the realm of affective attachments to …
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I Don't Know Why You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello: Concepts of Place in Eudora Welty's <i>The Optimist's Daughter</i> and Elizabeth Bowen's <i>The Death of the Heart</i>
… of the Heart reveal that, for Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen, place is· more than mere landscape. Place is both the scene upon which their novels unfold and the means by which they convey their abstract understandings of the world. Place provides the physical settings of their stories, but it …
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Reworking the Gothic: Representations of London, WWII-Present
… and psychogeography. During London's war years, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and Rose Macaulay sought to make sense of what was occurring through their writing: in their works, these authors incorporate their response to the ruined city, fear and death that became a part of life during the …
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Irish modernism and the machine
… argues that John Eglinton, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, W.B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett depict machines in texts in order to interrogate the status of Ireland's modernity. Are trains, dynamos (power generators), and bicycles signs of Ireland’s progress? Instead of an affirmation, I posit …
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The hotel in fiction from Henry James to Henry Green
… early to late James, through F Scott Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green, charting a series of shifting representational strategies as writers grappled with the hotel's increasing abstraction and fluidity. The hotel became, for these writers, a laboratory for the representation of milieu, …
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The Things That Remain: People, Objects, and Anxiety in Thirties British Fiction
… generation of Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Bowen, and Evelyn Waugh. Thirties writers have long been either neglected or associated primarily with political commitments, though this has begun to change. I argue that thirties writers often position things as an alternative to …
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Modern Homes? An Analysis of Irish and British Women's Literary Constructions of Domestic Space 1929-1946
… life. During this time, women authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Nancy Mitford, Evadne Price and Daphne du Maurier respond to the ways in which the ideas of home were in a continuous state of redefinition. They do this for multiple reasons. Factors changing these authors’ …
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BEGINNING A TRADITION: IRISH WOMEN'S WRITING, 1800-1984 (EDGEWORTH, JOHNSTONE, KEANE, IRELAND).
… narratorial device, as does Molly Keane in 1981. Elizabeth Bowen employs a more subtle narratorial device in The Last September, but one which still distances the author from her text. The re-vision of texts, literary and historical, indeed the re-visioning of history, recurs in Bowen, Keane, Kate …
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Experiments in Decentralization: Suburban Spaces in the Writings of Early Twentieth-Century British Female Novelists
… Dorothy Richardson, Vita Sackville-West, and Elizabeth Bowen utilize imagery of suburbia to formulate critiques of patriarchal gender norms. As lower-middle and working-class families relocated to suburbia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they colonized a way of life that …
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Queering Irish Women's Writing in the Twentieth Century
… women writers Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane. Seeking out the ghosts of modern Ireland, I turn to queer ways of reading, paying attention to the marginal and the disavowed. This new reading queers the archive of twentieth-century Ireland, disrupting common-sense …
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Adrift at home: National belonging and narrative form in the rooms of twentieth-century British fiction
… and unsettled. In novels by Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, J.G. Farrell, Jean Rhys, Sam Selvon, Doris Lessing, and W.G. Sebald, I analyze how representations of destabilized interior spaces are mobilized on behalf of larger arguments about imperial politics in which the relatively stable …
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Modernism's laughing bodies: a taxonomy of the phenomenology of laughter
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-11-30 at 16:34.
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Autobiographical subjects: Disability and social identity in life writing
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