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The life and letters of T. Rhys Evans ... with selections from his sermons and addresses,
No full textTranslation into English of the Alcestis of Euripides, by T. Rhys Evans: p. [339]-376.Mode of access: Internet
IN03092 Poḷonnaruva Slab Inscription at the North Gate of the Citadel - Rhys Davids (1875)
No full textIN03092 Poḷonnaruva Slab Inscription at the North Gate of the Citadel - Transcript and Translation
Source: Rhys Davids, T. W. (1875). ‘Three Inscriptions of Parakrama Bâhu the Great from Pulastipura, Ceylon (date circa 1180 A.D.),’ Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society NS 7, pp. 160-164
The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys' Quartet
No full textAbstract: This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel _Quartet_. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic aesthetic. But what do we mean when we classify or “diagnose” authors of literature or fictional characters as in the case of Rhys’ and _Quartet’s_ protagonist? Against this mode of reading, I argue that Rhys’ novel asks us, in various ways, to understand it on its own terms, suggesting a mode that I call _immanent reading_. It enjoins the reader to understand rather than to classify the famously problematic Rhys “heroine.” Ultimately, _Quartet_ foregrounds the instability of moral and social positions, implicitly arguing against what it calls the “mania for classification” employed by the novel’s antagonists. _Quartet_ cautions against diagnostic interpretations by dramatizing scenes of hypothetical focalization, emphasizing the modal nature of reality, and providing the novel with its characteristically shadowy mood. _Mood_ is a term drawn from Gérard Genette, which describes how certain narrative choices and devices (or _mode_) compose a discursive narrative atmosphere (or _mood_). is project suggests the untapped potential of narratology for analyzing affect in fictional narrative
T. W. Rhys Davids : Dialogues of theBuddha
No full textF. A. T. W. Rhys Davids : Dialogues of theBuddha. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 1, 1901. pp. 143-144
T. W. Rhys Davids : Buddhist India
No full textHuber Ed. T. W. Rhys Davids : Buddhist India. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 4, 1904. pp. 1092-1093
The Geography of Jean Rhys: The Impact of National Identity upon the Exiled Female Author
No full textCritical considerations of Jean Rhys’ texts are often intent on geopolitically ‘placing’ the female author. Feeling exiled from her birth country of Dominica and her resident country of England, Rhys felt as if she ‘had no country really now’ (Rhys 1984, 172). National identity seems to have impact upon both public and private practices of Rhys’ authorship. A lack of national identity implies that Rhys is placeless; a concept which is further problematised when considered under Virginia Woolf’s arguments in A Room of One’s Own (1929). If Rhys does not have country, how can she have a private space from which to write? For an exiled female author, private space is an issue pertinent to studies of her authorship. Through the frameworks of A Room of One’s Own and Hélène Cixous’ concept of ‘country in language’, this article demonstrates that Jean Rhys may use her writing practice as an imagined place in which to search for home. For the exiled female author, the textualisation of place and her identity as ‘author’ is an alternative dwelling space
Jean Rhys
No full textJean Rhys (1890-1979) is the author of five novels and over seventy short stories. The essays collected in Jean Rhys: Twenty-First-Century Approaches demonstrate Rhys’s centrality to modernism and to postcolonial literature alike by addressing her stories and novels from the 1920s and 1930s, including Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, and Good Morning, Midnight, as well as her later bestseller, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The volume establishes Rhys as a major author with relevance to a number of different critical discourses, and includes a section on affect theory that shows how contemporary interest in Rhys correlates with the recent “affective turn” in the social sciences and humanities. Strangely haunting and deeply unsettling, Rhys’s portraits of dispossessed women living in the early and late twentieth-century continue to trouble critical categories and easy conceptualisations of the periods her work spans.</p
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