Enright, Anne. “An annoyance to Irish literary males”. Guardian Weekly, 2 Nov. 2012, pp. 38-9.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Bernice Rubens
The protagonist, Norman Zweck, the son of a rabbi, starts out as his family's favourite, the one expected to rise to the top. While his sister remains infantilised, unable to enter adulthood, Norman duly becomes...
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
She wrote steadily until she was twenty-one, then produced only about seven more poems until, in the early 1970s, she discovered both the women's movement and the...
Textual Features
Edna O'Brien
According to Anne Enright, O'Brien's father and her husband are two great shadows in this memoir.
Enright, Anne. “An annoyance to Irish literary males”. Guardian Weekly, 2 Nov. 2012, pp. 38-9.
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EOB
writes of her literary success and the resentment it aroused, and, as a one-time disciple of R. D. Laing
Textual Features
Angela Carter
Joseph Harker, a hospital orderly who suffers debilitating dreams, provides the third-person viewpoint of the narrative. As the lives of various characters randomly intersect, the plot is less significant than the situation. At the end...
Timeline
1959: Psychologist R. D. Laing published his hugely...
Writing climate item
1959
Psychologist R. D. Laing
published his hugely influential The Divided Self. A Study of Sanity and Madness.
Dinnage, Rosemary. “Streamlined Smiles”. London Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2000, pp. 32-3.