{"product_id":"jean-rhyss-modernist-bearings-and-experimental-aesthetics-paperback","title":"Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSue Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddressing Jean Rhys's composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys's experimental aesthetics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing the distinctive and shifting evolution of Rhys's experimental aesthetics over her career, Sue Thomas explores Rhys's practices of composition in her fiction and drafts, as well as her self-reflective comment on her writing. The author examines patterns of interrelation, intertextuality, intermediality and allusion, both diachronic and synchronic, as well as the cultural histories entwined within them. Through close analysis of these, this book reveals new experimental, thematic, generic and political reaches of Rhys's fiction and sharpens our insight into her complex writerly affiliations and lineages.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSue Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of English at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eThe Worlding of Jean Rhys\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eImperialism, Reform and the Making of English in Jane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003eTelling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 27, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47439161983154,"sku":"9781350275799","price":71.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/aafddb219074a08b81c9470dc9e07fcd.webp?v=1778667558","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/jean-rhyss-modernist-bearings-and-experimental-aesthetics-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}