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The female performer with a public voice constitutes a remarkably vibrant theme in British and American narratives of the long nineteenth century. The tension between fictional female performers and other textual voices can be seen to refigure the cultural debate over the 'voice' of women in aesthetically complex ways. By focusing on singers, actresses, preachers and speakers, this book traces and explores an important tradition of feminine articulation.Drawing on critical approaches in literary studies, gender studies and philosophy, the book conceptualizes voice for the discussion of narrative texts. Examining voice both as a thematic concern and as an aesthetic effect, the individual chapters analyse how the actual articulation by female performers correlates with their cultural visibility and agency. What this study foregrounds is how women characters succeed in making themselves heard even if their voices are silenced in the end.
English literature --- Literature, Victorian --- Victorian literature --- Voice. --- gender. --- long nineteenth century. --- narrative fiction.
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In this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics, both as a stylist and as a serious thinker about the function and capacities of narrative fiction.McEwan's novels treat issues that are central to our times: politics, and the promotion of vested interests; male violence and the problem of gender relations; science and the limits of rationality; nature and ecology; love and innocence; and the quest for an ethical worldview. Yet he is also an econom
English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- McEwan, Ian --- MacEwan, Ian --- McEwan, I. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Makʹi︠u︡en, Iėn --- Макьюэн, Иэн --- McEwan, Ian Russell --- מקיואן, איאן --- British novelists. --- Ian McEwan. --- bestseller lists. --- ethical worldview. --- gender relations. --- innocence. --- male violence. --- narrative fiction. --- rationality. --- vested interests.
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