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Anna Book

Searching for Anna in Literary History

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

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Why are so many fictional characters named Anna (or a variant), and what does this signify? The startling prevalence of Hannah/Anna/Anne moves from biblical literature (Old Testament Hannah and New Testament St. Anne) to classics (Anna Karenina and Anne Elliot) to popular fiction (Anna Dunlop in Sue Miller's The Good Mother), children's literature (Anne of Green Gables), films (Hannah and Her Sisters), and horror (Annie Wilkes in Stephen King's Misery). Does this represent a conscious or unconscious search for the ultimate or missing mother harking back to mythical and religious traditions?Here twenty-two essayists--literary scholars, writers, historians, classicists, feminist theorists--rise to the challenge, examining Annas in individual literary works or making intriguing connections. Universals and particulars are sorted out as the related names and themes cross time, culture, gender, and racial borders. In the process, much new and fascinating literary criticism is revealed about dozens of authors, including Anthony Trollope, John Berryman, Sean O'Faolain, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Bowen, Anne Sexton, Arnold Bennett, Doris Lessing, Tillie Olsen, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mona Simpson, Mary Lavin, and, yes, Sigmund Freud.

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Utgivningsdatum1992-10-23
Mått156 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt595 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContributions to the Study of World Literature
Antal sidor246
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313275852

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MICKEY PEARLMAN is the editor of American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space (1989), of Mother Puzzles: Daughters and Mothers in Contemporary American Literature (Greenwood Press, 1989), and of the forthcoming Canadian Women Writing Fiction. She is the coauthor of Inter/View: Talks with America's Writing Women (A Voice of One's Own in paper) and of Tillie Olsen. She is the author of Listen to Their Voices: 20 Interviews with Women Who Write and of the forthcoming Reinventing Reality: Muriel Spark's Fiction.

Introduction: The Birth of a Book Idea: Or How I Got Involved with, Fixated on, and Obsessed by the Name Anna by Mickey PearlmanAnna and Demeter: The Myth of The Good Mother by Barbara McManusAnn of Ages by C. W. Sullivan IIIMaternity as Destiny: The Old Testament Hannahs by Pearl David LauferJohn Berryman's Anne by Roberta WhiteSometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: Austen's Anne Elliot and Freud's Anna O. by Diana PostlethwaiteTrollope's Lady Anna: "Corrupt Relations" or "Erotic Faith" by Deborah D. MorseTolstoy's Anna Karenina: A Palindrome, a Paradox, Beginning as She Ends by Abby H. P. WerlockRe-visioning Literary Motherhood: Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart and Elizabeth Jane Howard's Odd Girl Out by Phyllis LassnerAna, Again and Again: Love, Memory, and the Self in Sean O'Faolain by Mary Rose SullivanMothers and Lovers: Edith Wharton's The Reef and The Mother's Recompense by Nancy WalkerThe Mother Mirror in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Gertrude Stein's The Good Anna by Diane SimmonsSpiritual Maternity and Self-Fulfillment in Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns by Helen Pike BauerAnna's Daughter: Mazie Holbrook in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio by Mary DeforestAnny Annas in Finnegan's Wake? Manny! by Dee GoertzThe Mother of Them All: Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen by Dee Seligman"For We Swallow Magic and We Deliver Anne": Anne Sexton's Use of Her Name by Karen Alkalay-Gut"Anna, Anna, I Am Anna": The Annas of Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook by Claire SpragueThe Goddess Resurrected in Mary Lavin's Short Fiction by Martha VertreaceThe Quest for the Perfect Mother in Toni Morrison's Sula by Margaret SchrammThe Autobiographical Anna: Mona Simpson's Anywhere but Here and Susanna Moore's My Old Sweetheart by Kim Lacy RogersControlling the Past and the Future: Two-Headed Anna in Ellen Gilchrist's The Anna Papers by Jane Taylor McDonnellStephen King's Dark and Terrible Mother, Annie Wilkes by Katherine K. GottschalkBibliographyIndex