Angela Kershaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 959883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Kershaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Kershaw |
| SIGNATURE | KERSHAW A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Parcours de femmes
History of a success
This article analyses the publication history of Irène Némirovsky's posthumously published fiction in the period 1944–2004. Frequently presented as a ‘neglected’ writer, no attention has so far been paid to the variations in Némirovsky's post-war reputation, and no detailed analysis of the reasons why her work was not read in post-war France has so far been proposed. This article reads Némirovsky's posthumous reputation through the prism of the d…
Finding Irène Némirovsky
This article 1 traces the construction of Irène Némirovsky's literary reputation in inter-war France, drawing on Bourdieu's notion of the literary field. It aims to go beyond the ethical interpretation of her life and work in relation to the Holocaust to examine both its aesthetic and its sociological significance in the inter-war period. The article first examines Némirovsky as a popular writer, showing how she succeeded in establishing herself …
Simone Téry (1897-1967)
Simone Téry (1897-1967), French journalist and novelist, joined the French Communist Party in the mid-1930s after visiting the Soviet Union. She worked as a correspondent for L'Humanité, Vendredi and Regards; the latter post took her to Spain during the Civil War. The resulting texts, Front de la liberté: Espagne 1937-1938 (1938) and Où l'aube se lève (1945), form the basis of my analysis of Téry's desire to write the history of the present in in…
French and British Female Intellectuals and the Soviet Union. The Journey to the USSR, 1929 – 1942
The question of why intellectuals between the wars were fascinated by the USSR has been extensively debated by intellectual historians of both France and Britain. According to Neal Wood, “the ‘ultimate explanation’ of the appeal of communism is forever concealed from rational inquiry in the minds and hearts of many diverse individuals” (9), but rational inquiry can reveal a collective, cultural fascination through analysis of individual textual r…
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French and British Female Intellectuals and the Soviet Union. The Journey to the USSR, 1929 – 1942
The question of why intellectuals between the wars were fascinated by the USSR has been extensively debated by intellectual historians of both France and Britain. According to Neal Wood, “the ‘ultimate explanation’ of the appeal of communism is forever concealed from rational inquiry in the minds and hearts of many diverse individuals” (9), but rational inquiry can reveal a collective, cultural fascination through analysis of individual textual r…
Finding Irène Némirovsky
This article 1 traces the construction of Irène Némirovsky's literary reputation in inter-war France, drawing on Bourdieu's notion of the literary field. It aims to go beyond the ethical interpretation of her life and work in relation to the Holocaust to examine both its aesthetic and its sociological significance in the inter-war period. The article first examines Némirovsky as a popular writer, showing how she succeeded in establishing herself …
Simone Téry (1897-1967)
Simone Téry (1897-1967), French journalist and novelist, joined the French Communist Party in the mid-1930s after visiting the Soviet Union. She worked as a correspondent for L'Humanité, Vendredi and Regards; the latter post took her to Spain during the Civil War. The resulting texts, Front de la liberté: Espagne 1937-1938 (1938) and Où l'aube se lève (1945), form the basis of my analysis of Téry's desire to write the history of the present in in…
Parcours de femmes
History of a success
This article analyses the publication history of Irène Némirovsky's posthumously published fiction in the period 1944–2004. Frequently presented as a ‘neglected’ writer, no attention has so far been paid to the variations in Némirovsky's post-war reputation, and no detailed analysis of the reasons why her work was not read in post-war France has so far been proposed. This article reads Némirovsky's posthumous reputation through the prism of the d…
Political science (5 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Communism (2 works)