The Anna Book: Searching for Anna in Literary History: 46 (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313275858 ISBN 13: 9780313275852

Verlag: Praeger, 1992

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Why are so many fictional characters named Anna (or a variant), and what does this signify? The startling prevalence of Hannah/Anna/Anne moves from biblical literature (Old Testament Hannah and New Testament St. Anne) to classics (Anna Karenina and Anne Elliot) to popular fiction (Anna Dunlop in Sue Miller's The Good Mother), children's literature (Anne of Green Gables), films (Hannah and Her Sisters), and horror (Annie Wilkes in Stephen King's Misery). Does this represent a conscious or unconscious search for the ultimate or missing mother harking back to mythical and religious traditions? Here twenty-two essayists--literary scholars, writers, historians, classicists, feminist theorists--rise to the challenge, examining Annas in individual literary works or making intriguing connections. Universals and particulars are sorted out as the related names and themes cross time, culture, gender, and racial borders. In the process, much new and fascinating literary criticism is revealed about dozens of authors, including Anthony Trollope, John Berryman, Sean O'Faolain, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Bowen, Anne Sexton, Arnold Bennett, Doris Lessing, Tillie Olsen, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mona Simpson, Mary Lavin, and, yes, Sigmund Freud.

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MICKEY PEARLMAN is an independent scholar, writer, and editor. She was editor of American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space and the author of Reinventing Reality: Patterns and Characters in the Novels of Muriel Spark, Tillie Olsen and the coauthor of Inter/View: Talks with America's Writing Women. She writes often about Muriel Spark and is especially interested in the concepts of space and memory in the work of contemporary American women.

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• Verlag: Praeger
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0313275858
• ISBN 13: 9780313275852
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Pearlman Mickey
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