Carole Sweeney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carole Sweeney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carole |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweeney |
| SIGNATURE | SWEENEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vagabond Fictions
Examines British women’s experimental writing in historical contexts, 1945–1970 The first detailed literary history of women’s experimental writing in post-war Britain Provides a detailed historical overview combined with close critical readings and complemented by an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources Considers literature in changing cultural and technological contexts of production through the BBC, the Arts Council, and ava…
Cadaverised girls
Beginning her career as Helen Ferguson, Anna Kavan published six realist novels before changing her name in 1939–1940 after which she began to write in a more experimental, expressionistic style. Providing an introduction to her work as well as a more detailed consideration of selected fiction, this article reads Kavan’s work through Julia Kristeva’s idea of melancholia in Black Sun (1989), and suggests that the drive to lifelessness apparent in …
Le mot déclin est presque trop doux’
Michel Houellebecq’s views on the European Union have been consistently negative, recently declaring in an interview that anti-Europeanism is his ‘only political engagement.’ Houellebecq’s work takes for granted civilizational decline, what Oswald Spengler called the ‘decline of the West’, and regards the EU, described in Submission as a ‘putrid decomposition’, as central to this vision. The only way to revitalise Europe and to reverse this decli…
Introduction, ‘La France, ce n’est pas Michel Houellebecq’
Few other living writers have more relevance to events in their native countries than Michel Houellebecq, whose association with the increasingly anxious domestic politics of France has only increa
Why This Rather Than That?”
An accomplished journalist and literary critic, Brigid Brophy was also a prolific novelist. Among her eleven works of fiction, she wrote The King of a Rainy Country, In Transit, and Flesh, all of which, in very different ways, address changing ideas of gender and sexuality in postwar Britain, anticipating later feminist debates on essentialism and the cultural construction of gender. Difficult to categorize by either literary movement or style, B…
Groping inside language
Published within a year of one another, Christine Brooke-Rose's Between (1968) and Brigid Brophy's In Transit (1969) are experimental anti-novels sharing a fascination with anti-realist narrative techniques. Each text explores the possibilities of linguistic playfulness and the ways in which a rigidly gendered language system might be ‘unsexed’ by trans-lingual wordplay, the subversion of literary genre and an attention to the mechanics of transl…
Women’s Experimental Writing
Building on the pioneering work of Ellen Friedman and Miriam Fuchs in Breaking the Sequence (1989), Ellen Berry’s new book examines the work of contemporary women writers, Kathy Acker, Chantal Chawaf, Lynda Barry, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Valerie Solanas, and Jeanette Winterson, suggesting that each deploys a deliberate strategy of “literary negation” (1) in their “negative aesthetic texts” (5). Berry argues that all six writers, in different ways,…
Keeping the Ruins Private’
In 1964 the number of registered heroin addicts in Britain was 753. One of these was Anna Kavan, née Helen Woods. Beginning her writing career under the name Helen Ferguson, she wrote conventionally realist novels that enjoyed modest commercial success. In 1939-40, after a number of serious breakdowns and suicide attempts, and now calling herself Anna Kavan, Woods/Ferguson left a Swiss sanatorium, addicted to heroin that had almost certainly been…
Introduction
Fractured, Travelling, and Transformed Narratives, edited by Lucia Boldrini and Carole Sweeney
Natural Women? Anti-Feminism and Michel Houellebecq's Plateforme
Michel Houellebecq's novel Plateforme (2001) satirically proposes Third World sex tourism as a remedy for sexual dissatisfaction in the West brought on by feminism's destruction of ‘natural’ gender roles. As in Houellebecq's previous work, feminism is lampooned both as a sex-negative censorial force and as a kind of mercenary libertarianism. Plateforme more fully elaborates this position suggesting that feminism is simply an affective projection …
Fin de millénaire French Fiction
Fin de millénaire French Fiction: The Aesthetics of Crisis." Modern & Contemporary France, 19(3), pp. 367–368
The Unmaking of the World
This article reads Edouard Glissant's notion of a Caribbean nonhistory through the lens of the Haitian slave revolution of 1791 and its subsequent disappearance from, or distortion in, various intellectual discourses. It argues that the historical and political dislocations produced by the slave trade and subsequent histories of violence and rupture have resulted in a Haitian history centred on a central notion of absence and disappearance. This …
Experimental Nations
One of them, but white’
In Africa, you say ‘the Negro is a savage, he has produced nothing, he has no history’. It is certainly true he has not got himself mixed up with machinery and science to fly the Atlantic, turnout
Le tour du monde en quatre jours
Le mot déclin est presque trop doux’
Michel Houellebecq’s views on the European Union have been consistently negative, recently declaring in an interview that anti-Europeanism is his ‘only political engagement.’ Houellebecq’s work takes for granted civilizational decline, what Oswald Spengler called the ‘decline of the West’, and regards the EU, described in Submission as a ‘putrid decomposition’, as central to this vision. The only way to revitalise Europe and to reverse this decli…
Natural Women? Anti-Feminism and Michel Houellebecq's Plateforme
Michel Houellebecq's novel Plateforme (2001) satirically proposes Third World sex tourism as a remedy for sexual dissatisfaction in the West brought on by feminism's destruction of ‘natural’ gender roles. As in Houellebecq's previous work, feminism is lampooned both as a sex-negative censorial force and as a kind of mercenary libertarianism. Plateforme more fully elaborates this position suggesting that feminism is simply an affective projection …
Fin de millénaire French Fiction
Fin de millénaire French Fiction: The Aesthetics of Crisis." Modern & Contemporary France, 19(3), pp. 367–368
The Unmaking of the World
This article reads Edouard Glissant's notion of a Caribbean nonhistory through the lens of the Haitian slave revolution of 1791 and its subsequent disappearance from, or distortion in, various intellectual discourses. It argues that the historical and political dislocations produced by the slave trade and subsequent histories of violence and rupture have resulted in a Haitian history centred on a central notion of absence and disappearance. This …
Le tour du monde en quatre jours
One of them, but white’
In Africa, you say ‘the Negro is a savage, he has produced nothing, he has no history’. It is certainly true he has not got himself mixed up with machinery and science to fly the Atlantic, turnout
Le tour du monde en quatre jours
The Unmaking of the World
This article reads Edouard Glissant's notion of a Caribbean nonhistory through the lens of the Haitian slave revolution of 1791 and its subsequent disappearance from, or distortion in, various intellectual discourses. It argues that the historical and political dislocations produced by the slave trade and subsequent histories of violence and rupture have resulted in a Haitian history centred on a central notion of absence and disappearance. This …
Experimental Nations
Fin de millénaire French Fiction
Fin de millénaire French Fiction: The Aesthetics of Crisis." Modern & Contemporary France, 19(3), pp. 367–368
Natural Women? Anti-Feminism and Michel Houellebecq's Plateforme
Michel Houellebecq's novel Plateforme (2001) satirically proposes Third World sex tourism as a remedy for sexual dissatisfaction in the West brought on by feminism's destruction of ‘natural’ gender roles. As in Houellebecq's previous work, feminism is lampooned both as a sex-negative censorial force and as a kind of mercenary libertarianism. Plateforme more fully elaborates this position suggesting that feminism is simply an affective projection …
Introduction
Fractured, Travelling, and Transformed Narratives, edited by Lucia Boldrini and Carole Sweeney
Women’s Experimental Writing
Building on the pioneering work of Ellen Friedman and Miriam Fuchs in Breaking the Sequence (1989), Ellen Berry’s new book examines the work of contemporary women writers, Kathy Acker, Chantal Chawaf, Lynda Barry, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Valerie Solanas, and Jeanette Winterson, suggesting that each deploys a deliberate strategy of “literary negation” (1) in their “negative aesthetic texts” (5). Berry argues that all six writers, in different ways,…
Keeping the Ruins Private’
In 1964 the number of registered heroin addicts in Britain was 753. One of these was Anna Kavan, née Helen Woods. Beginning her writing career under the name Helen Ferguson, she wrote conventionally realist novels that enjoyed modest commercial success. In 1939-40, after a number of serious breakdowns and suicide attempts, and now calling herself Anna Kavan, Woods/Ferguson left a Swiss sanatorium, addicted to heroin that had almost certainly been…
Why This Rather Than That?”
An accomplished journalist and literary critic, Brigid Brophy was also a prolific novelist. Among her eleven works of fiction, she wrote The King of a Rainy Country, In Transit, and Flesh, all of which, in very different ways, address changing ideas of gender and sexuality in postwar Britain, anticipating later feminist debates on essentialism and the cultural construction of gender. Difficult to categorize by either literary movement or style, B…
Groping inside language
Published within a year of one another, Christine Brooke-Rose's Between (1968) and Brigid Brophy's In Transit (1969) are experimental anti-novels sharing a fascination with anti-realist narrative techniques. Each text explores the possibilities of linguistic playfulness and the ways in which a rigidly gendered language system might be ‘unsexed’ by trans-lingual wordplay, the subversion of literary genre and an attention to the mechanics of transl…
Le mot déclin est presque trop doux’
Michel Houellebecq’s views on the European Union have been consistently negative, recently declaring in an interview that anti-Europeanism is his ‘only political engagement.’ Houellebecq’s work takes for granted civilizational decline, what Oswald Spengler called the ‘decline of the West’, and regards the EU, described in Submission as a ‘putrid decomposition’, as central to this vision. The only way to revitalise Europe and to reverse this decli…
Introduction, ‘La France, ce n’est pas Michel Houellebecq’
Few other living writers have more relevance to events in their native countries than Michel Houellebecq, whose association with the increasingly anxious domestic politics of France has only increa
Vagabond Fictions
Examines British women’s experimental writing in historical contexts, 1945–1970 The first detailed literary history of women’s experimental writing in post-war Britain Provides a detailed historical overview combined with close critical readings and complemented by an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources Considers literature in changing cultural and technological contexts of production through the BBC, the Arts Council, and ava…
Cadaverised girls
Beginning her career as Helen Ferguson, Anna Kavan published six realist novels before changing her name in 1939–1940 after which she began to write in a more experimental, expressionistic style. Providing an introduction to her work as well as a more detailed consideration of selected fiction, this article reads Kavan’s work through Julia Kristeva’s idea of melancholia in Black Sun (1989), and suggests that the drive to lifelessness apparent in …
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