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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"May Sinclair"”.
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'It was as if she had said....': May Sinclair and reading narratives of cure
May Sinclair was one of the most widely read and successful English women novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. She had interests and themes in common with many of those now considered to have been at the heart of English modernism. In terms of formal experimentation too her …
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy: The Construction and Destruction of the Self in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
… narratives of the early twentieth century by May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). I argue that sacrifice is used as a narrative strategy for negotiating the relationship between self and other, not only on a thematic level, but also in terms of narrative strategy. These …
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Liminal entities : transition and the 'space between' in the short fiction of Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf
… whilst the stories of Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair are virtually absent from serious critical discussion. Only Katherine Mansfield has received due attention, though rarely in relation to her women contemporaries.Since the early 1990s, however, there has been a renaissance of interest …
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Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage: the superficial or the profound?
… of Richardson’s contemporaries: Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, and Katherine Mansfield. Their reviews and comments of Pilgrimage are interesting to analyse as they reveal very different responses. Woolf and Mansfield suggest that the volumes are superficial and fail to achieve the aims that …
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Subject Matters: The Discourses and Aesthetics of the British Novel, 1900-1939
… Through readings of novels by Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Henry Green, and Lewis Grassic Gibbon, my work recovers modernism's plurality as well as its engagement with issues of the subject and power.
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The phantom of joy: Emotion, affect, and the problem of persistence in modernist literature
… I consider how modernist writers (W.B. Yeats, May Sinclair, James Joyce, Mina Loy) endeavor to produce a realignment of self and body that is expansive and joyful, though always in relation to intense negative affect. Bodies and feelings are highly contested and gendered domains, and in …
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A supreme fire of thought and spirit : modernist patterns of cultural renewal in First World War Britain
… and fiction, chapter five explores the ideas of May Sinclair, who not only proposed a new variant of philosophical idealism that fused mysticism and new developments in psychoanalysis, but articulated this philosophy in her wartime novels, especially The Tree of Heaven. The final chapter examines …