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Zusatztext Literary Couples and Twentieth-Century Life Writing is an interesting and imaginative book on collaboration, mutuality, and narrative intimacy. Utell may prefer rainbow to granite, but this work nonetheless lays solid foundations for future scholarship on literary love and life writing. Informationen zum Autor Janine Utell is Distinguished University Professor and Chair of English at Widener University, USA. She is the author of James Joyce and the Revolt of Love (2010) and Engagements with Narrative (2015) and editor for the journal The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 . Vorwort Examines a range of Victorian and modernist life writing on intimate relationships, including well-known literary couples such as the Woolfs, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath and Christopher Isherwood and Don Bacardy. Zusammenfassung Exposing how modernist and late-modernist writers tell the stories of their intimate relationships though life writing, this book engages with the process by which these authors become subjects to a significant other, a change that subsequently becomes narrative within their works. Looking specifically at partners in a couple, Janine Utell focuses on such literary pairings as Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, and Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Utell draws on the latest work in narrative theory and the study of intimacy and affects to shed light on the ethics of reading relationships in the modern period. Focusing on a range of genres and media, from memoir through documentary film to comics, this book demonstrates that stories are essential for our thinking of love, desire and sexuality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Early 20th-Century Life Writing and the Making of Intimacy2. Worlding: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas3. Encounter and Loss: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland4. Time and the Other: Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy 5. Gaps and Closure: Sylvia Plath and Ted HughesBibliographyIndex...
