Jean rhys alcoholism

    • What is Jean Rhys's melancholic late modernism?

      Good Morning, Midnight: Jean Rhys’s Melancholic Late Modernism Jean Rhys’s fiction of the 1920s and 1930s offers an extended critical portrayal of down and out single women that circulate in a vicious market of spectacle, drink, fashion, and sex—only to lose.


    • How has Jean Rhys been interpreted by different critics and theorists?

      Jean Rhys and her texts have been interpreted by different critics and theorists in strikingly different ways. She and they are in those readings: Caribbean, English, European; feminist and anti- feminist; elite, working class, marginal; white and white Creole; outsider and insider; ageless and of her time.


    • Should I use biographical material about Jean Rhys?

      But I have used biographical material about Jean Rhys cautiously, always with an awareness that when the source is Rhys herself it is wise to remember that she created the narrative of her life, in her autobiography, letters or articles, as an ongoing fictional text.



    • Two Drunk Ladies: The Modernist Drunk Narrative and the ...

      of alcoholism and drinking practices in general, as well as the gendering of the modernist artist in particular, I then consider how writers Jean Rhys and Jane Bowles articulate their vision of the drinking woman. Rhys‘s 1939 novel Good Morning, Midnight sees protagonist Sasha Jansen


    • The Anxiety of Racialized Sexuality in Jean Rhys - Miami

      Rhys’s own life, and they appear to be linked to one another as if they could be simulacra of the same woman. As Mary Cantwell shares of her interview with Rhys, Rhys blurs the lines between fiction and autobiography: “Whenever I asked about one of them – Jean Rhys’s women they’ve been called – she replied with ‘I’” (23).


    • [PDF File]‘Back & Down’ Narrative, Psychoanalysis, and Progress in the ...

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      –Jean Rhys1 This quote, taken from one of Jean Rhys’s personal notebooks, highlights the importance of interior space that characterises Rhys’s approach to her highly personal oeuvre. The author’s five novels, Quartet (1929), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1931), Voyage in the Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Wide Sargasso Sea


    • [PDF File]Good Morning, Midnight: Jean Rhys’s Melancholic Late Modernism

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      Good Morning, Midnight: Jean Rhys’s Melancholic Late Modernism Jean Rhys’s fiction of the 1920s and 1930s offers an extended critical portrayal of down and out single women that circulate in a vicious market of spectacle, drink, fashion, and sex—only to lose. And Good Morning, Midnight (1939) serves as a particularly biting culmination of


    • [PDF File]JEAN RHYS - Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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      JEAN RHYS Jean Rhys has long been central to debates in feminist, modernist, Caribbean, British and post-colonial writing. Elaine Savory’s study, which incorporates and goes beyond previous critical approaches, is a critical reading of Rhys’s entire oeuvre, including the stories and autobiography, and


    • [PDF File]The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

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      Jean Rhys Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys’s reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives, formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies along them. This Introduction offers a reliable and


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