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- ISBN 9783631763438
- Weight: 187g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2018
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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This feminist study is an innovative reassessment of Brian Moore’s five novels featuring eponymous heroines. The author reviews previous interpretations, exposing their sexist bias. Highlighting Moore’s empathetic insights, she also discusses the novelist’s limitations. She compares Moore’s heroines to Flaubert’s Emma Bovary, reinterpreted by Mieke Bal, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina revisioned by Aritha van Herk, and to female characters created by Canadian women writers. Rejecting biocriticism, the study focuses on Moore’s biblical, Victorian and modernist inspirations, and his indebtedness to film. Ideas of female thinkers illuminate the condition of Moore’s female protagonists.
Dorota Filipczak teaches at the University of Łódź, Poland and has published extensively on Canadian and British writers. She founded and runs Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture. She is the author of seven books of poetry and a member of the Association of Polish Writers.
