Helen E Mundler
Biographic Data
| ID | 5625028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen E Mundler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mundler |
| SIGNATURE | MUNDLER H E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris-Est Créteil |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Fish
Photograph courtesy of the author “It’s going to go on doing that,” said Ella, “Until it’s dead”. As fish went, it seemed quite ordinary – more grey than silver, a slightly triangular tube, tapered from head to tail, compact and without particular grace. But it was writhing on the concrete, bashing and thrashing head and tail against the dock in an irregular and now failing rhythm. Ella felt her chest tighten, as if she had been swimming too long…
Criticism, practice, pedagogy
This article examines how literary criticism and the teaching of creative writing can be brought together. Specifically, it analyses an aspect of intradiegetic literary creation in A.S. Byatt’s Babel Tower, the third novel of the Frederica Quartet, in which Frederic Potter, a teacher of English literature and would-be novelist, is afflicted by writer’s block. Frederica works through this problem by returning to a project begun in The Virgin in th…
“There is a time for building…”
This dossier comes out of a recent attempt to launch, or consolidate, creative writing as a discipline within English Studies in French universities. It follows on from an earlier E-rea dossier, Letters to Swift, co-edited by Ruth Menzies and Jean Viviès in 2021. The project began with the creation of a new panel at the annual conference of the SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur) in 2020. The response to our call for papers…
The maternal impulse as ghost
This article offers a critical reading of three short stories, each of which explores the extent to which its protagonist is literally, as well as figuratively, haunted by the desire for a child. Firstly, the notion of textual haunting is proposed through an intratextual reading of each of these short stories within the author’s work as a whole. Secondly, the hauntings undergone by the protagonists are analysed, both through close reading and thr…
The Otherworlds of Liz Jensen
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The Otherworlds of Liz Jensen
The maternal impulse as ghost
This article offers a critical reading of three short stories, each of which explores the extent to which its protagonist is literally, as well as figuratively, haunted by the desire for a child. Firstly, the notion of textual haunting is proposed through an intratextual reading of each of these short stories within the author’s work as a whole. Secondly, the hauntings undergone by the protagonists are analysed, both through close reading and thr…
The Fish
Photograph courtesy of the author “It’s going to go on doing that,” said Ella, “Until it’s dead”. As fish went, it seemed quite ordinary – more grey than silver, a slightly triangular tube, tapered from head to tail, compact and without particular grace. But it was writhing on the concrete, bashing and thrashing head and tail against the dock in an irregular and now failing rhythm. Ella felt her chest tighten, as if she had been swimming too long…
Criticism, practice, pedagogy
This article examines how literary criticism and the teaching of creative writing can be brought together. Specifically, it analyses an aspect of intradiegetic literary creation in A.S. Byatt’s Babel Tower, the third novel of the Frederica Quartet, in which Frederic Potter, a teacher of English literature and would-be novelist, is afflicted by writer’s block. Frederica works through this problem by returning to a project begun in The Virgin in th…
“There is a time for building…”
This dossier comes out of a recent attempt to launch, or consolidate, creative writing as a discipline within English Studies in French universities. It follows on from an earlier E-rea dossier, Letters to Swift, co-edited by Ruth Menzies and Jean Viviès in 2021. The project began with the creation of a new panel at the annual conference of the SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur) in 2020. The response to our call for papers…
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