Brosman, Catharine Savage. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Twayne.
20-21
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Literary responses | Simone de Beauvoir | The one-hundredth anniversary of SB
's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the... |
Textual Production | Simone de Beauvoir | Jean-Paul Sartre
and SB
launched a left-wing periodical, Les temps modernes (Modern Times), which became the premier intellectual journal in France (and which was also widely read elsewhere). Brosman, Catharine Savage. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Twayne. 20-21 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Simone de Beauvoir | Despite the implication of finality in her previous book of memoirs, her partner's death drew from SB
, the following year, one more book of reminiscence: Le cérémonie des adieux: Suivi de entretiens avec Jean-Paul Sartre. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Bryher | Desmond MacCarthy
had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939... |
Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | Its subject is the relationship between a daughter and the mother (who conceived and bore her outside marriage, without the cushion of financial security), and about their struggles to survive. Tales of the mother's own... |
Education | Nell Dunn | ND
was educated at a convent school, which she left at the age of fourteen. Reading of some texts which were vital to her experience—Jane Austen
and Jean-Paul Sartre
—came after she had left... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | Though KKD
's father, Abanimohan Kushari
, studied economics at the University of Dacca (now Dhaka)
and worked as a civil servant, his true love was literature. He taught himself to speak French and German... |
Publishing | Mavis Gallant | During her six years with the Montreal Standard, MG
wrote about economic, cultural, political, and social issues, including interviewing post-war refugees, reporting on Jean-Paul Sartre
's visit to the city in 1946, and exploring... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Storm Jameson | Her central theme here is the responsibility of the writer for the survival of the values of liberal humanism. British Book News. British Council. (1950): 838 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Storm Jameson | Throughout this work SJ
glosses over such events as marriage, divorce, and illness in favour of examining her psychology and behaviour, her struggle to balance motherhood and a public career, the value of creative writing... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kristeva | The first of these books addresses Freud
's concept of revolt against the fathers as the basis of individual maturation and independence, and seeks by looking at the lives of three distinguished modern social rebels... |
Publishing | Betty Miller | After the rejection of her fourth novel, BM
turned her attention to short stories for John O'London's Weekly and other magazines. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii. xi-xii |
Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | IM
published Sartre
: Romantic Rationalist, a philosophical monograph: her first book, and the earliest by anyone on Sartre's work, dedicated to her mother
and father
. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 356 Conradi, Peter J. “A Literary Witness to Good and Evil”. Guardian Weekly, Guardian Publications, p. 24. 24 |
Education | Iris Murdoch | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | In shaping her thought, her father
's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky
in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre
... |
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