Frameworks

Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-420-2676-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 110, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

Janet Frame’s work is notorious for the demands it makes on reader and critic. This collection of nine new essays by international Frame specialists draws on a range of critical frameworks to explore fresh ways of looking at Frame’s fiction, poetry, and autobiography. At the same time, the essays plug into the energy of Frame’s work to challenge our thinking within and beyond these frameworks.
Frameworks offers a unique perspective on Frame studies today, showcasing its major concerns as well as heralding new Frame narratives for the decade ahead. Mindful of preceding Frame criticism, these essays use their contemporary vantage-point to recast seminal questions about the relationship between Janet Frame’s work and its critical contexts.
Each of the essays makes a case for framing her work in a particular way, but all are characterized by self-reflexivity regarding their own critical practice and the relationship they assume between exegetical framework and Frame’s work. Underlying this practice, and contained within the pun of the title, are the elementary-sounding yet fundamental questions of Frame studies: How does Frame’s work work? And how do we work with her work?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cronin, Jan

Drichel, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
I: Meta-Critical Frame(s)
Jan Cronin: Through a Glass Darkly: Reading the Enigmatic Frame
Jennifer Lawn: Playing with Freud: Radical Narcissism and Intertextuality in Frame’s Intensive Care and Daughter Buffalo
II: Metaphysical Frame(s)
Lydia Wevers: Self Possession: ‘Things’ and Janet Frame’s Autobiography
Anna Smaill: Beyond Analogy: Janet Frame and Existential Thought
Valérie Basnée: A Home in Language: The (Meta)Physical World of Janet Frame’s Poetry
Isabel Michell: “Turning the stone of being”: Janet Frame’s Migrant Poetic
III: Beyond the Frame(s) of Representation
Marc Delrez: “Conquest of surfaces”: Aesthetic and Political Violence in the Work of Janet Frame
Chris Prentice: Janet Frame’s Radical Thought: Symbolic Exchange and Seduction in Living in the Maniototo and The Carpathians
Simone Drichel: “Signposts to a world that is not even mentioned”: Janet Frame’s Ethical Transcendence
Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Cronin lectures in contemporary literature in the Department of English at the University of Auckland. Simone Drichel lectures in postcolonial literature in the Department of English at the University of Otago.