Nonia Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nonia Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9666-2823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Moments of Being-in-the-Archive
This paper adopts a constellation or patchwork writing structure to examine five encounters with archival materials and practices occurring over the span of 15 years. We observe how these encounters were characterised by strong, spontaneous reactions including emotions such as disgust and shame-in reference either to the archival objects themselves or our relationship to them-and semi-conscious behavioural acts. We argue that paying attention to …
The Precarious Writing of Ann Quin
This is the first full scholarly appraisal of the distinctive British experimental writer, Ann Quin. Provides a much needed full and in-depth critical appraisal of Ann Quin. Recuperates this important but neglected British experimental woman writer. Written by the world expert in the field. Grounded in original archival research that illuminates our understanding of Quin’s life and work. Responds to and participates in burgeoning critical and pop…
Precarious Writing of Ann Quin
Lessing's Early Letters
Doris Lessing was a prolific letter writer. Her personal archive in the British Archive for Contemporary Writing at UEA includes a huge range and volume of material: 130 boxes amounting to thousands of pages of letters, faxes, notebooks, postcards, notebooks, dream diaries and other personal papers. There is more correspondence (as well as a significant number of literary manuscripts) at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and a small but s…
(Re)turning to Quin
Ann Quin’s innovative, versatile oeuvre made a substantial contribution to 1960s and 1970s British avant-garde and experimental writing, but literary scholarship has, until recently, been slow to appreciate the brilliance and importance of her work. This special issue of Women: a cultural review is the first collection of its kind focused solely on Quin. To frame the collection, I offer a short introduction to Quin’s work and life, and discuss ho…
‘No Hip Muffs’
But now start the delightful surprises. Time becomes fluid [...] And inside this fluidity a permanence, for the person who looks at the old face in the mirror is the same as the one who shares your earliest memories, when you were two, perhaps less: that child’s core is the same as the old woman’s. ‘Here I still am: I haven’t changed at all.’ Best of all, not ever predicted nor, I think, described, a fresh liveliness in experiencing. Is it as if …
About/of madness
Ann Quin’s final, unfinished book, The Unmapped Country (1973), narrates its protagonist’s experience of madness. This article considers Quin’s text in light of Shoshana Felman’s distinction in Writing and Madness (1978), between writing ‘about’ madness, at a distance from the experience, and writing ‘of’ it: how, Felman asks of the latter, might this even be possible? The distinction between about and of, and the question of how? structure my ar…
CFP
Amy Levy
This broad-ranging collection of essays shows us why it is important for critics to engage with Amy Levy's writing. Meri-Jane Rochelson argues that: ‘Today, we must view Levy's oeuvre as both compl
Doris Lessing
(Re)turning to Quin
Ann Quin’s innovative, versatile oeuvre made a substantial contribution to 1960s and 1970s British avant-garde and experimental writing, but literary scholarship has, until recently, been slow to appreciate the brilliance and importance of her work. This special issue of Women: a cultural review is the first collection of its kind focused solely on Quin. To frame the collection, I offer a short introduction to Quin’s work and life, and discuss ho…
About/of madness
Ann Quin’s final, unfinished book, The Unmapped Country (1973), narrates its protagonist’s experience of madness. This article considers Quin’s text in light of Shoshana Felman’s distinction in Writing and Madness (1978), between writing ‘about’ madness, at a distance from the experience, and writing ‘of’ it: how, Felman asks of the latter, might this even be possible? The distinction between about and of, and the question of how? structure my ar…
Amy Levy
This broad-ranging collection of essays shows us why it is important for critics to engage with Amy Levy's writing. Meri-Jane Rochelson argues that: ‘Today, we must view Levy's oeuvre as both compl
Doris Lessing
CFP
About/of madness
Ann Quin’s final, unfinished book, The Unmapped Country (1973), narrates its protagonist’s experience of madness. This article considers Quin’s text in light of Shoshana Felman’s distinction in Writing and Madness (1978), between writing ‘about’ madness, at a distance from the experience, and writing ‘of’ it: how, Felman asks of the latter, might this even be possible? The distinction between about and of, and the question of how? structure my ar…
‘No Hip Muffs’
But now start the delightful surprises. Time becomes fluid [...] And inside this fluidity a permanence, for the person who looks at the old face in the mirror is the same as the one who shares your earliest memories, when you were two, perhaps less: that child’s core is the same as the old woman’s. ‘Here I still am: I haven’t changed at all.’ Best of all, not ever predicted nor, I think, described, a fresh liveliness in experiencing. Is it as if …
(Re)turning to Quin
Ann Quin’s innovative, versatile oeuvre made a substantial contribution to 1960s and 1970s British avant-garde and experimental writing, but literary scholarship has, until recently, been slow to appreciate the brilliance and importance of her work. This special issue of Women: a cultural review is the first collection of its kind focused solely on Quin. To frame the collection, I offer a short introduction to Quin’s work and life, and discuss ho…
The Precarious Writing of Ann Quin
This is the first full scholarly appraisal of the distinctive British experimental writer, Ann Quin. Provides a much needed full and in-depth critical appraisal of Ann Quin. Recuperates this important but neglected British experimental woman writer. Written by the world expert in the field. Grounded in original archival research that illuminates our understanding of Quin’s life and work. Responds to and participates in burgeoning critical and pop…
Precarious Writing of Ann Quin
Lessing's Early Letters
Doris Lessing was a prolific letter writer. Her personal archive in the British Archive for Contemporary Writing at UEA includes a huge range and volume of material: 130 boxes amounting to thousands of pages of letters, faxes, notebooks, postcards, notebooks, dream diaries and other personal papers. There is more correspondence (as well as a significant number of literary manuscripts) at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and a small but s…
Moments of Being-in-the-Archive
This paper adopts a constellation or patchwork writing structure to examine five encounters with archival materials and practices occurring over the span of 15 years. We observe how these encounters were characterised by strong, spontaneous reactions including emotions such as disgust and shame-in reference either to the archival objects themselves or our relationship to them-and semi-conscious behavioural acts. We argue that paying attention to …
Art (7 works) · Art history (3 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Doris (gastropod) (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works)