Lee, Hermione. “The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright—review”. theguardian.com.
Hermione Lee
Standard Name: Lee, Hermione
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Literary responses | Anne Enright | Hermione Lee
called this a rich, flamboyant, mannered book, written with condensed, self-conscious stylishness, dazzling with images and sensations and violence, and daring you to resist it from its first outrageous sentence. For her it... |
Literary responses | Anne Enright | Hermione Lee
, reviewing, saluted Gina's, or Enright's, voice as wry, disabused, reckless, candid, funny, and Gina's female relationships (with her mother, her sister, Evie) as discomforting, awkward and delicately handled. |
Literary responses | Anita Desai | Critic Hope Mary
describes these stories as delicately composed, Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press. 43 and n15 Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press. 43 and n14 |
Textual Features | Willa Cather | This summary may suggest to modern ears a cut-and-dried tale of goodies and baddies, but the motivations of all the central characters are mixed, and a large cast of subsidiary characters enacts complexity where a... |
Textual Production | Willa Cather | WC
was a tireless letter-writer, and also kept a diary. She did not want her letters to be published, allegedly because she thought them too spontaneous and unpolished. Byatt, A. S., and Willa Cather. “Introduction”. A Lost Lady, Virago, p. v - xiv. vii |
Textual Features | Willa Cather | Hermione Lee
writes: The best stories are set in the West, and in Pittsburgh. In all of them a solitary figure with artistic talents or inclinations is destroyed by the desert, the philistine wilderness. Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago. 75 |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | A review by Randolph Bourne
in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann
in England. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf. 96 |
Literary responses | A. S. Byatt | A review by Hermione Lee
called this book a mosaic of texts, parodies, translations, allusions and fragmentary quotations. . . . an addict's book about the dangers of literary addiction. Lee, Hermione. “Losing the Thread in the Labyrinth of Life”. Guardian Weekly, p. 18. 18 |
Literary responses | Pat Barker | Hermione Lee
, reviewing this book for the Guardian Weekly, found PB
's style was sometimes jerky, and that some of the links back to the previous novel were clumsily made. But she applauded... |
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