Gill Plain
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1375853 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gill Plain |
| NOMBRES | Gill |
| APELLIDO | Plain |
| FIRMA | PLAIN G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3387-4850 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Nation in British Literature and Culture
The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political, social and cultural construct, examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The fashioning of the nation through literature and culture is examined, as well as counter narratives that have sought to call national orthodoxies into question. Specific topics explored include the…
‘Tale Engineering’
The ‘golden age’ of clue-puzzle detective fiction is usually considered to end in 1939 with the outbreak of the Second World War. Yet Agatha Christie, the most high-profile and successful exponent of the form, continued to produce bestselling novels until her death in 1976. This essay examines three novels from the immediate postwar period to consider how she adapted her writing to negotiate a changing world and evolving fashions in genre fiction…
British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960
'Postwar' is both a period and a state of mind, a sensibility comprised of hope, fear and fatigue in which British society and its writers paradoxically yearned both for political transformation and a nostalgic re-instatement of past securities. From the Labour landslide victory of 1945 to the emergence of the Cold War and the humiliation of Suez in 1956, this was a period of radical political transformation in Britain and beyond, but these chang…
Before the Colditz Myth
Before the concretization of the ‘Colditz Myth’ in the mid-1950s, British cinema's engagement with the prisoner of war (POW) narrative took unexpected generic forms. The Captive Heart (1946) and The Wooden Horse (1950) draw on the narrative conventions and structures of feeling mobilized by documentary realism, romance, melodrama, and crime. Exploring these films as hybrid genres draws attention to their capacity to symbolize a range of postwar s…
Choices
Literature of the 1940s
A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformationGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748627448','ISBN:9780748627455','ISBN:9780748631513']);This new study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters - Documenting, Desiri…
Literature of the 1940s Vol. 5
Literature of the 1940s
This study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after, focusing instead on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters – Documenting, Desiring, Killing, Escaping, Grieving, Adjusting and Atomizing – the book sets middlebrow and popular writers alongside residual modernists and new voices to reconstruct the literary landscape of the p…
John Mills and British Cinema
Women's Fiction of the Second World War
Passing/Out
Women's Fiction of the Second World War
Great Expectations
Formulating a definition of ‘good’ poetry is, and should be, impossible. Yet women's poetry of the First World War seems generally to have been condemned as ‘bad’. It inspires an ambiguous response from readers who recognize the value of its historical, social and psychological content, but shudder at the limitations of its form. However, I believe that a much more fruitful reading of these ‘recalcitrant’ texts is possible. It is not my intention…
From War Time to Women's Time
During the Second World War many women writers sought to reconceptualize temporal relations. Often this was part of a fictional strategy of `writing oneself out' of the temporal reality of war. Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen propose strongly contrasting conceptions of this alternative time, but both imagine a `women's time' that is other to the patriarchal linear temporality perceived as the time of war
Literature of the 1940s
This study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after, focusing instead on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters – Documenting, Desiring, Killing, Escaping, Grieving, Adjusting and Atomizing – the book sets middlebrow and popular writers alongside residual modernists and new voices to reconstruct the literary landscape of the p…
Before the Colditz Myth
Before the concretization of the ‘Colditz Myth’ in the mid-1950s, British cinema's engagement with the prisoner of war (POW) narrative took unexpected generic forms. The Captive Heart (1946) and The Wooden Horse (1950) draw on the narrative conventions and structures of feeling mobilized by documentary realism, romance, melodrama, and crime. Exploring these films as hybrid genres draws attention to their capacity to symbolize a range of postwar s…
Great Expectations
Formulating a definition of ‘good’ poetry is, and should be, impossible. Yet women's poetry of the First World War seems generally to have been condemned as ‘bad’. It inspires an ambiguous response from readers who recognize the value of its historical, social and psychological content, but shudder at the limitations of its form. However, I believe that a much more fruitful reading of these ‘recalcitrant’ texts is possible. It is not my intention…
From War Time to Women's Time
During the Second World War many women writers sought to reconceptualize temporal relations. Often this was part of a fictional strategy of `writing oneself out' of the temporal reality of war. Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen propose strongly contrasting conceptions of this alternative time, but both imagine a `women's time' that is other to the patriarchal linear temporality perceived as the time of war
From War Time to Women's Time
During the Second World War many women writers sought to reconceptualize temporal relations. Often this was part of a fictional strategy of `writing oneself out' of the temporal reality of war. Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen propose strongly contrasting conceptions of this alternative time, but both imagine a `women's time' that is other to the patriarchal linear temporality perceived as the time of war
Great Expectations
Formulating a definition of ‘good’ poetry is, and should be, impossible. Yet women's poetry of the First World War seems generally to have been condemned as ‘bad’. It inspires an ambiguous response from readers who recognize the value of its historical, social and psychological content, but shudder at the limitations of its form. However, I believe that a much more fruitful reading of these ‘recalcitrant’ texts is possible. It is not my intention…
Women's Fiction of the Second World War
Women's Fiction of the Second World War
Passing/Out
John Mills and British Cinema
Literature of the 1940s
A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformationGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748627448','ISBN:9780748627455','ISBN:9780748631513']);This new study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters - Documenting, Desiri…
Literature of the 1940s Vol. 5
Literature of the 1940s
This study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after, focusing instead on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters – Documenting, Desiring, Killing, Escaping, Grieving, Adjusting and Atomizing – the book sets middlebrow and popular writers alongside residual modernists and new voices to reconstruct the literary landscape of the p…
Before the Colditz Myth
Before the concretization of the ‘Colditz Myth’ in the mid-1950s, British cinema's engagement with the prisoner of war (POW) narrative took unexpected generic forms. The Captive Heart (1946) and The Wooden Horse (1950) draw on the narrative conventions and structures of feeling mobilized by documentary realism, romance, melodrama, and crime. Exploring these films as hybrid genres draws attention to their capacity to symbolize a range of postwar s…
Choices
British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960
'Postwar' is both a period and a state of mind, a sensibility comprised of hope, fear and fatigue in which British society and its writers paradoxically yearned both for political transformation and a nostalgic re-instatement of past securities. From the Labour landslide victory of 1945 to the emergence of the Cold War and the humiliation of Suez in 1956, this was a period of radical political transformation in Britain and beyond, but these chang…
‘Tale Engineering’
The ‘golden age’ of clue-puzzle detective fiction is usually considered to end in 1939 with the outbreak of the Second World War. Yet Agatha Christie, the most high-profile and successful exponent of the form, continued to produce bestselling novels until her death in 1976. This essay examines three novels from the immediate postwar period to consider how she adapted her writing to negotiate a changing world and evolving fashions in genre fiction…
The Nation in British Literature and Culture
The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political, social and cultural construct, examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The fashioning of the nation through literature and culture is examined, as well as counter narratives that have sought to call national orthodoxies into question. Specific topics explored include the…
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