The Anna Book by Mickey Pearlman
Why are so many fictional characters named Anna (or a variant), and what does this signify? The startling prevalence of Hannah/Anna/Anne moves from biblical literature (Old Testament Hannah and New Testament St. Anne) to classics (Anna Karenina and Anne Elliot) to popular fiction (Anna Dunlop in Sue Miller's The Good Mother), children's literature (Anne of Green Gables), films (Hannah and Her Sisters), and horror (Annie Wilkes in Stephen King's Misery). Does this represent a conscious or unconscious search for the ultimate or missing mother harking back to mythical and religious traditions? Here twenty-two essayists--literary scholars, writers, historians, classicists, feminist theorists--rise to the challenge, examining Annas in individual literary works or making intriguing connections. Universals and particulars are sorted out as the related names and themes cross time, culture, gender, and racial borders. In the process, much new and fascinating literary criticism is revealed about dozens of authors, including Anthony Trollope, John Berryman, Sean O'Faolain, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Bowen, Anne Sexton, Arnold Bennett, Doris Lessing, Tillie Olsen, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mona Simpson, Mary Lavin, and, yes, Sigmund Freud.-
The Late Modernism of Cormac McCarthy
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English Postcoloniality
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The Presence of the Past in Children's Literature
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Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec
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Change and Renewal in Children's Literature
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The Cast of Consciousness
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The Art of Fact
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Searching for Recognition
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A Morbid Fascination
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The Colonial Conan Doyle
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Aristocracies of Fiction
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The Adventure of the Detected Detective
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Unorthodox Views
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Judgment and Justification in the Nineteenth-Century Novel of Adultery
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Reworlding
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Virginia Woolf
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The Image of Manhood in Early Modern Literature
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Postcolonial and Queer Theories
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The Literary Heritage of Childhood
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Camelot in the Nineteenth Century
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Money
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The Postmodern Short Story
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Framing the Canterbury Tales
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James Joyce and Trieste
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Salman Rushdie's Postcolonial Metaphors
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The Worlding of Jean Rhys
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Images in Transition
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Shakespeare's Proverbial Themes
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Aspects and Issues in the History of Children's Literature
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Writers on Writing
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African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century
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Sherlock Holmes Among the Pirates
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Promptings of Desire
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Jens Bjorneboe
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Per Olov Enquist
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Friedrich von Schiller and the Drama of Human Existence
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Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism
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Edith Sodergran
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Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story
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Robin Hood
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The Vonnegut Chronicles
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Satirical Apocalypse
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Jules Verne Rediscovered
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Imperial Knowledge
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Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction
MICKEY PEARLMAN is the editor of American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space (1989), of Mother Puzzles: Daughters and Mothers in Contemporary American Literature (Greenwood Press, 1989), and of the forthcoming Canadian Women Writing Fiction. She is the coauthor of Inter/View: Talks with America's Writing Women (A Voice of One's Own in paper) and of Tillie Olsen. She is the author of Listen to Their Voices: 20 Interviews with Women Who Write and of the forthcoming Reinventing Reality: Muriel Spark's Fiction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780313275852 |
| ISBN 10 | 0313275858 |
| Title | The Anna Book |
| Author | Mickey Pearlman |
| Series | Contributions To The Study Of World Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 1992-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 246 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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