Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays [Paperback]

Patricia Duncker (Author)

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Pandora Press (April 1 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0863584322
ISBN-13: 978-0863584329
Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 299 g

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"Duncker manages her brainy material with a touch so deft it is almost skittish, inserts little hooks into the heart as well as the mind." -- Independent on Sunday

"Her provocative writing is welcome. . . . If award judges and movie producers know their stuff, they will serenade Patricia Duncker." -- Financial Times

Book Description

In a varied selection of essays, Patricia Duncker takes on the classics of European literature—from the sexual politics of Milton, to an illuminating reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace as historical fiction. She also discusses contemporary women's writing, including Angela Carter's "queer gothic," nationalism and Caribbean women's writing, and the politics of heterosexuality in the work of Margaret Atwood and Jenny Diski. On a more personal note, the collection closes with examinations of the role of narrative, the problems of writing, and the influences that have shaped Patricia Duncker's own work.

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