In this
section I just have found one book written about Anita Brookner which is Art And Life In
The Novels Of Anita Brookner.
This
book have been written by another woman called Eileen
Williams-Wanquet, and the description is
that This book treats all of Brookner's twenty-two short novels as one
monolithic fiction. The autobiographical element in this controversial author's
fiction is taken as a starting point to explore the complex interplay of art
and life. Autobiography, as a form of employment of life, is the creative
matrix governing the whole oeuvre, which is realistically rooted in time and
space. The study draws on narrative theory, contemporary theories of fiction
and recent feminist and ethical criticism. It shows how Brookner's work
combines and opposes both realistic and modernist modes of writing and their
philosophical underpinnings. The novels, too often misread as anti-feminist and
resolutely pre-modern, appear to be more essentially postmodern than is usually
acknowledged, through a heightened awareness of the role played by narrative in
constructing our sense of reality and of self. The pervasive intertextuality,
habitually ignored or taken to be simply a form of intellectual snobbery, is
the key to understanding how the novels tackle questions of moral life as
encoded in narrative discourse and fine art. In addressing the question of how
life should have been lived, Brookner's self-reflexive and ironical fiction
subversively rewrites the traditional moral codes embodied in romance and which
have determined the behaviour of women. Finally, this study examines the
function of writing as a performative act and the role played by repetition.
Author:
Eileen Williams-Wanquet
Publisher:
Peter Lang Pub Inc
Text
format: Paperback
Binding: softcover
Date of
publication: March 2004
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