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Janet Frame’s World of Books.

Wilson, Janet.

Janet Frame’s World of Books. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (237 pages) - Studies in World Literature ; v.8 . - Studies in World Literature .

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Intertextuality -- Mikhail Bakhtin and Polyphony -- Janet Frame and Intertextuality -- Chapter One: Janet Frame's Books -- Leaving New Zealand -- Early Years and Dot's Little Folk -- School Days -- At College and In Hospital -- Later Reading -- Chapter Two: Poets and Poetry -- The Importance of Poetry -- Poetry at School and College -- Poetic Visionaries: Blake, Yeats, Rilke and Dylan Thomas and their Celebration of the Natural World -- The English 19th Century Romantics and A State of Siege -- New Zealand Poets -- Walt Whitman, Frame's America and Daughter Buffalo -- Chapter Three: Frame's Use of Poetry in the Novels -- Prose, Poetry and Poetic Prose -- Sylvia Plath and Intensive Care -- Chapter Four: The Bible-Eden and Apocalypse -- Biblical Poetics -- Ethics and Spirituality -- Biblical Narratives -- Chapter Five: Engaging with Shakespeare -- Upon the Heath -- Wild Waters -- Shakespearean Dreams -- Chapter Six: Tending the Myths -- Folklore -- Fairy Tales -- Anglo Saxon Poetry and The Adaptable Man -- The Ballad Tradition and Intensive Care -- Myth and Survival -- Memory, Language and The Carpathians -- Afterword -- Index -- Selected Bibliography.

9783838272429


Frame, Janet-Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic books.

PR9639.3.F7 .N485 2019

823.914

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