This study investigates how Janet Frame weaves together literary sources from her extensive reading to create a web of intertextual relationships. Patricia Neville traces Frame’s passion for books beginning with her childhood and earliest published work in the Otago Daily Times. Drawing on new research and through close readings of Frame’s novels, she discusses the effects of Frame’s borrowings from the Bible and Shakespeare and from writing from New Zealand, Britain, France, and the USA. A fascinating read not only for scholars, but for all admirers of Janet Frame’s fiction.
Patricia Neville
Patricia Neville, PhD, read English Literature for her first degree at London University, Goldsmiths’ College, and then became a teacher of English in secondary and adult education. She first encountered Frame’s novels while on a holiday in New Zealand and was inspired to embark on her own study of Frame’s reading patterns and literary borrowings. Her doctoral study on Frame’s novels for the Open University took her back to New Zealand for archival research. This book is the outcome of her explorations, scrutinies, and analyses.
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Delivery time 2-3 working days.
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Number of Pages |
238
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Publication date |
18.02.2020
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English
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21,0 cm x 14,8 cm
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Paperback
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Studies in World Literature
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ISBN
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978-3-8382-1242-5
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310 g
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“In referencing and analysing both the well-known and lesser known echoes that reverberate all through the author’s work, Neville offers the first extensive view of Janet Frame in conversation with other authors, making Janet Frame’s World of Books a welcome contribution to contemporary criticism.”―Cindy Gabrielle, Independent Scholar, Liège, Belgium
"Not only is Neville very familiar with Frame’s writings, but she also displays impressive erudition in her knowledge of French, German, American writers, poets and critics as well. She has excavated a mine. This is a very complete, fascinating, innovative and timely work, written in excellent style by a critic who is also undeniably, and like Frame herself, a lover of words. Neville’s work contributes to renewing criticism on Frame which has tended up to now to neglect this crucial aspect of her work."—Claire Bazin, Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 43.1 | 2020
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