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Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics

Sue Thomas author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:27th Jan '22

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Revealing afresh the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys’s experimental aesthetics, this book addresses Rhys’s composition and positioning of her fiction and how she invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers.

Addressing Jean Rhys’s composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys’s experimental aesthetics. Tracing the distinctive and shifting evolution of Rhys’s experimental aesthetics over her career, Sue Thomas explores Rhys’s practices of composition in her fiction and drafts, as well as her self-reflective comment on her writing. The author examines patterns of interrelation, intertextuality, intermediality and allusion, both diachronic and synchronic, as well as the cultural histories entwined within them. Through close analysis of these, this book reveals new experimental, thematic, generic and political reaches of Rhys’s fiction and sharpens our insight into her complex writerly affiliations and lineages.

This book offers a virtuosic and revelatory exploration of Jean Rhys’s intertextual and intermedial practice. Sue Thomas not only uncovers the depth and eclecticism of Rhys’s allusions to literary, artistic, dramatic and musical cultures, but argues for their centrality to her decolonial and feminist politics and her radical aesthetics. * Anna Snaith, King's College London, UK *

ISBN: 9781350275751

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 508g

240 pages