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Author: Nina Auerbach
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2002-10
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780812218367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1410341372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Study Guide for Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2015-09-24
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1410336484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Setara Pracha
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-01-09
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1666907189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing a resurgence of interest in Daphne du Maurier’s writing, The Pathology of Desire in Daphne du Maurier’s Short Stories offers an overview of all her collections and a detailed reading of nine stories. These contain recurrent references to the incomplete or impaired human form and are best read through a corporeal lens. The criticism illustrates her importance as a cultural commentator fascinated by the results of frustrated human desire, and includes a synopsis of the published collections, and the stories within them, to give the reader a sense of the variety of the overarching themes and the persistent force of corporeality in the stories. Du Maurier is well-known as a novelist, but her short fiction is pivotal to understanding her position and influence as a writer. She rewrites fairytales and foregrounds female violence long before it became a cultural trend.
Author: Michael O’Neill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1317322606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches to ask how Venice’s appeal has affected Western culture since 1800.
Author: Sarah Annes Brown
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1526125412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Familiar Compound Ghost explores the relationship between allusion and the uncanny in literature. An unexpected echo or quotation in a new text can be compared to the sudden appearance of a ghost or mysterious double, the reanimation of a corpse, or the discovery of an ancient ruin hidden in a modern city. In this scholarly and suggestive study, Brown identifies moments where this affinity between allusion and the uncanny is used by writers to generate a particular textual charge, where uncanny elements are used to flag patterns of allusion and to point to the haunting presence of an earlier work. A Familiar Compound Ghost traces the subtle patterns of connection between texts centuries, even millennia apart, from Greek tragedy and Latin epic, through the plays of Shakespeare and the Victorian novel, to contemporary film, fiction and poetry. Each chapter takes a different uncanny motif as its focus: doubles, ruins, reanimation, ghosts and journeys to the underworld.
Author: Catherine Lanone
Publisher: Presses Univ. du Mirail
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9782858167166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Dunn
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 0007347111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography.
Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2013-12-17
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0316253006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbor. As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly' military occupation on their doorstep, family, friends and neighbours gather round to protect their heritage. In this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States. "A diverse and engrossing cast of characters...provocative, diverting."-Chicago Tribune
Author: Piers Dudgeon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-07-15
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 160598762X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe untold story behind Peter Pan: The shocking account of J. M. Barrie's abuse and exploitation of the du Maurier family. In his revelatory Neverland, Piers Dudgeon tells the tragic story of J. M. Barrie and the Du Maurier family. Driven by a need to fill the vacuum left by sexual impotence, Barrie sought out George du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier’s grandfather (author of the famed Trilby), who specialized in hypnosis. Barrie’s fascination and obsession with the Du Maurier family is a shocking study of greed and psychological abuse, as we observe Barrie as he applies these lessons in mind control to captivate George’s daughter Sylvia, his son Gerald, as well as their children—who became the inspiration for the Darling family in Barrie’s immortal Peter Pan. Barrie later altered Sylvia’s will after her death so that he could become the boys’ legal guardian, while pushing several members of the family to nervous breakdown and suicide. Barrie’s compulsion to dominate was so apparent to those around him that D. H. Lawrence once wrote: J. M Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die.
