TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dorota Filipczak
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2193-4207
SN  - 9783631763506
TI  - Brian Moore’s Eponymous Heroines
T2  - Representations of Women and Authorial Boundaries
DO  - 10.3726/b14481
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056863
N2  - This feminist study is an innovative reassessment of Brian Moore’s five novels featuring eponymous heroines. The author reviews previous interpretations, exposing their sexist bias. Highlighting Moore’s empathetic insights, she also discusses the novelist’s limitations. She compares Moore’s heroines to Flaubert’s Emma Bovary, reinterpreted by Mieke Bal, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina revisioned by Aritha van Herk, and to female characters created by Canadian women writers. Rejecting biocriticism, the study focuses on Moore’s biblical, Victorian and modernist inspirations, and his indebtedness to film. Ideas of female thinkers illuminate the condition of Moore’s female protagonists.
KW  - Canadian literature, British literature, Irish literature, Comparative literature, Feminist criticism, Film
LA  - English
ER  -