The Subversion Of Romance In The Novels Of Barbara Pym
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The Subversion Of Romance In The Novels Of Barbara Pym
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Author : Ellen M. Tsagaris
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1998
The Subversion Of Romance In The Novels Of Barbara Pym written by Ellen M. Tsagaris and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
Points out how British novelist Pym (1913-80) parodied the conventions of romance novels by deflating characters, hyperbole, and exaggeration, or emphasizing meticulously the mundane elements of everyday life. Shows how she used food, clothes, heroin and hero characterizations, and marriage customs to portray her characters,' and perhaps her own, skepticism about the whole business. Paper edition (764-0), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Barbara Pym Collection Volume Two
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Author : Barbara Pym
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2018-12-04
The Barbara Pym Collection Volume Two written by Barbara Pym and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with Fiction categories.
Two literary romantic novels from the New York Times–bestselling author of Excellent Women. Less Than Angels: In a story that explores the mating habits of humans, magazine writer Catherine Oliphant lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom Mallow—until he announces he’s leaving her for a nineteen-year-old student. Though stunned by the betrayal, Catherine becomes fascinated by another anthropologist: a reclusive eccentric recently returned from Africa. Now Catherine must weigh her options and decide who she is and what she really wants. No Fond Return of Love: The course of true love does not run smoothly in this delightful comedy of manners set in 1960s London. Jilted by her fiancé, Dulcie Mainwaring gives up on ever finding true love. Of course, that doesn’t stop her from meddling in the romantic lives of others. Her friend Viola is enamored with a handsome editor, who in turn has eyes for Dulcie’s young niece. Dulcie, meanwhile, for all her struggles may be falling back into love again.
No Fond Return Of Love
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Author : Barbara Pym
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
No Fond Return Of Love written by Barbara Pym and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Female friendship categories.
Three lonely people come together in this poignant and witty novel of thwarted dreams, scandalous secrets, and star-crossed romance After being jilted by her fiance, Dulcie Mainwaring despairs of ever finding true love. For a distraction, she goes to a publishing conference, where she meets Viola Dace, a dramatic woman who refuses to live without romance, as well as Aylwin Forbes, an editor whom Viola adores. The fact that Aylwin is married doesn't stop Viola. When her amorous pursuit prompts Aylwin's wife to leave him, the academic heartthrob is wide open to Viola's romantic attentions. That is, until Dulcie's eighteen-year-old niece moves in with Viola, and the young girl soon catches Aylwin's roving eye. Set in London in the early 1960s, "No Fond Return of Love "is a delightful comedy of manners that comes full circle as Dulcie discovers a love as unexpected as it is liberating.
The Reality Behind Barbara Pym S Excellent Women
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Author : Robin R. Joyce
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-02-20
The Reality Behind Barbara Pym S Excellent Women written by Robin R. Joyce and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book analyses Barbara Pym’s published and unpublished work through a new image, that of the troublesome woman. It details the political nature of her work, highlighting her feminist ideas which are hidden in village-like settings and revealed by troublesome women. By exploring Pym’s written work, published, and unpublished, diaries and notebooks, the book shows that this material gives credence to Hilary Pym’s interpretation of her sister as a complex person.
The Rhetoric Of Women S Humour In Barbara Pym S Fiction
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Author : Naghmeh Varghaiyan
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2021-04-20
The Rhetoric Of Women S Humour In Barbara Pym S Fiction written by Naghmeh Varghaiyan and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women’s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. Varghaiyan reveals how the rhetoric of women’s humour enables Pym’s female characters to survive in the patriarchal culture and to unsettle it.
Reading Barbara Pym
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Author : Deborah Donato
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2005
Reading Barbara Pym written by Deborah Donato and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
Reading Barbara Pym stakes out new territory in Pym criticism byquestioning the assumptions and predispositions by which her novelshave been received and judged. Early in Pym's career, reviews of hernovels likened her books in relaxed fashion to delicious tastes andsmells. Later (when mention of her twice in a TLS survey as one of thecentury's ten most underrated novelists secured and altered her criticalreception), and since her death in 1980, commentary in oppositelyvigilant fashion discovered in Pym's novels academic themes andgender/political issues ripe for exploration. But the traditional concernsof academic and popular criticism have sidestepped the morechallenging task of locating the power and quality of Pym's narrative, the reasons her novels are important to read personally as well asstudy academically
The Making Of Barbara Pym
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Author : Emily Stockard
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-11-10
The Making Of Barbara Pym written by Emily Stockard and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Making of Barbara Pym offers new insights into Pym’s formative years as a writer, during which she honed a complex view of the necessity of change on individual and cultural levels. Supported by newly published archival material, this comprehensive study of Pym’s early work explores her personal and fictional pre-war and wartime writing, including unpublished and posthumously published works, before looking closely at Some Tame Gazelle and Excellent Women, published during Britain’s post-war austerity period. Of central importance is a new recognition of Pym’s use of social roles, particularly those of women, as proper avenues for change. The book traces how Pym came to devise characters whose individual development can be seen as analogous to or representative of larger cultural movements. Pym uses the spinster figure to embody the forward-looking cultural perspectives that she endorsed and then, finally, in Jane and Prudence, to figure the end of Britain’s austerity period.
An Unsuitable Attachment
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Author : Barbara Pym
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986-10
An Unsuitable Attachment written by Barbara Pym and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-10 with Fiction categories.
The Older Woman In Recent Fiction
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Author : Zoe Brennan
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-12-09
The Older Woman In Recent Fiction written by Zoe Brennan and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-09 with Social Science categories.
This critical study explores late twentieth century novels by women writers--including Doris Lessing, May Sarton and Barbara Pym--that feature female protagonists over the age of sixty. These novels' discourses on aging contrast with those largely pejorative ones that dominate Western society. They break the silence that normally surrounds the lives of the aged, and this book investigates how older female protagonists are represented in relation to areas such as sexuality, dependence and everyday life. Beginning with an investigation of popular opinions about aging and a survey of hypotheses from disciplines including gerontology, psychology and feminism, the text reviews literary critical attitudes toward fictions of aging; analyzes representations of physically dependent characters, whose anger over their failing bodies is often eased by relationships with their female friends; discusses how paradigms of female sexuality exclude the possibility of older women being sexually desirable; examines characters that live a contented life, finding a more polemical side to them than is noted in more conventional literary critiques; and analyzes the aged sleuth in classical detective fiction.
No Fond Return Of Love
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Author : Barbara Pym
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media Books
Release Date : 2013-03-05
No Fond Return Of Love written by Barbara Pym and has been published by Open Road Media Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Fiction categories.
Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself, however ridiculous it may be, is falling, just a little, for Aylwin. Once life's little humiliations are played out, maybe love will be returned, and fondly, after all.