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Marilynne Robinson features 16 new and exciting essays on the noted American author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fiction and nonfiction.
Sommario
Introduction
Dr Rachel Sykes, Anna Maguire Elliott, and Dr Jennifer Daly
Robinson in Context: A Critical Discussion
Professor Bridget Bennett (University of Leeds), Professor Sarah Churchwell (School of Advanced Studies), and Professor Richard King (University of Nottingham)
1. Writing, Form, and Style
Rhythm and Vision in Robinson's Prose
Dr Jack Baker (University of Durham)
"It might be better to burn them": Archive Fever in the Gilead novels
Dr Daniel King (University of Derby)
"Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed?": dialogical tactics in the Gilead novels
Teresa O'Rourke (University of Loughborough)
2. Gender and Environment
The female orphan and an ecofeminist ethic-of-care in Marilynne Robinson's
Housekeeping and
LilaAnna Maguire Elliott (University of Sussex)
"One Day She Would Tell Him What She Knew": Disturbance of the Epistemological Conventions of the Marriage Plot in Lila
Maria Elena Carpintero Torres-Quevedo (University of Edinburgh)
Souls All Unaccompanied: Enacting Levinasian "Feminine Alterity" in Marilynne Robinson's
HousekeepingMakayla Steiner (University of Iowa)
3. Race, Grief, and Absence
Domesticating Political Feeling: Race, Memory and Nation in Marilynne Robinson's
HomeDr Chris Lloyd (University of Hertfordshire)
The domestic geographies of grief: bereavement, homelessness and home spaces in Marilynne Robinson's
Housekeeping and
HomeLucy Clarke (Oxford Brookes University)
Haunting the narrative: the spectre of race and absence in Marilynne Robinson
Emily Hammerton-Barry (independent scholar)
4. Robinson and her Contemporaries
Space and Place in Marilynne Robinson's
Housekeeping and Richard Ford's
CanadaDr Jennifer Daly (Trinity College Dublin)
Acknowledging a numinous ordinary: Marilynne Robinson and Stanley Cavell
Dr Paul Jenner (University of Loughborough)
Marilynne Robinson and the "Intimate" Essay: Writing against the Polemic in Robinson's
The Givenness of Things (2015) and Ta-Nehisi Coates's
Between the World and Me (2015)
Christina Brennan (University of Manchester)
Info autore
Rachel Sykes is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary American Literature at the University of Birmingham
Jennifer Daly is an independent researcher and Research Strategy Officer at Trinity College Dublin
Anna Maguire Elliott is Senior Research Administrator at the University of Portsmouth
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Marilynne Robinson features 16 new and exciting essays on the noted American author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fiction and nonfiction. -- .
