Eva Figes
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Standard Name: Figes, Eva
Birth Name: Eva Unger
Married Name: Eva Figes
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, a seriously experimental novelist, also published short stories, children's books, literary criticism, social commentary, and translations, especially of French and German fiction.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Ann Quin | AQ
published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 231 Sewell, Brocard, and Colin Wilson. Like Black Swans: Some People and Themes. Tabb House, 1982. 186 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Manning | This book brought AM
great success, and she continued throughout her career to identify herself as its author. Henry Fothergill Chorley
, reviewing it for the Athenæum two years after publication, said mutedly that it... |
Literary responses | Sara Maitland | Several recent feminist critics have linked SM
with other well-known literary names of the twentieth century: Caroline Guerin
considered her alongside Iris Murdoch
in Literature and Theology: An International Journal of Theory, Criticism and Culture... |
politics | John Milton | This is an argument which defends Milton's behaviour, and later Milton critics have offered different defences of him in the light of different ideas about what constitutes good behaviour in matters of gender. Meanwhile a... |
Textual Features | Caryl Churchill | Influenced by Joe Orton
's Entertaining Mr. Sloane and Eva Figes
' Patriarchal Attitudes, the play has been read as critiquing the destructive effects of private property. Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan, 1991. 62 Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen, 1985. 4 |
Textual Features | Anne Manning | A recent critic, pointing to the theological correctness of the way the fictional Askew accepts her burden of martyrdom, classes this work with other sectarian, Protestant Reformation novels. Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth. “Reviving the Reformation: Victorian women writers and the Protestant historical novel”. Women’s Writing, No. 1, pp. 73 -83. 79 |
Textual Features | Michelene Wandor | This includes work by Nora Bartlett
, Sara Maitland
, Judith Kazantzis
, Wendy Mulford
, Libby Houston
, Cora Kaplan
, Michèle Roberts
, Angela Carter
, Noel Greig
, Rozsika Parker
, Alison Hennegan |
Timeline
June 1972
Spare Rib, a feminist periodical issued monthly by Spare Ribs
from 27 Clerkenwell Close, London, was launched to put women's liberation on the news stands.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
86
By early November 1973
Experimental novelist B. S. Johnson
prefaced his short-story volume Aren't You Rather Young To Be Writing Your Memoirs? with a polemical critique listing only sixteen serious contemporary British writers.
4 December 2008
Investigators from the office of the Russian general prosecutor confiscated hard drives containing the archives compiled by the human rights and research centre Memorial
, housed at St Petersburg.