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The Secret Country
Sarah Robertson
其他書名
Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips’ Cryptic Fiction
出版BRILL, 2007-01-01
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralSocial Science / Popular CultureSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN94012038819789401203883
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jvx5DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Secret Country is the first monograph on the work of the contemporary American novelist Jayne Anne Phillips. Through detailed and innovative textual analysis this study considers the southern aspects of Phillips’ writing. Robertson demonstrates the importance of Phillips’ place within the southern literary canon by identifying the echoes of William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter and Edgar Allan Poe that permeate her work.
Phillips’ complex attachments to a regional past are explored through both psychoanalytical and historical materialist approaches, revealing not only the writer’s distinctly southern preoccupations, but also her reflections on contemporary American society. Tracing the family dynamics in Phillips’ work from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, this book examines the effects of increased modernization and capitalization on everyday interactions, and questions the nature of the author’s backward glance to the past. This volume is of interest for a wide audience, particularly students and scholars of contemporary southern and American literature.