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Daphne Du Maurier
156 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
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December 15, 2022
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KELLY, R.M. 1987. DAPHNE DU MAURIER in TWAYNE’S ENGLISH AUTHORS SERIES, TEAS 437. Kinley E Roby, editor. TWAYNE PUBLISHERS, an imprint of SIMON & SCHUSTER MACMILLAN, New York, N.Y., & London, U.K.
PR 6007 U47 Z74 1987
or 823 ‘ . 912
This was a successful read for me as I had read a substantial amount of du Maurier’s oeuvre and had been totally enchanted by her novels at least a dozen times.
For my comments on chapters one and two , click above on the ‘reading activity’ tab.
All of chapter three was devoted to analyzing REBECCA.
I had to read up to page 79 in chapter four LOVE, ADVENTURE, REBELLION, before a novel I had not read was reviewed -The King’s General, the only unread one in that chapter .
In chapter five THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY, again there was only one left unread -The Glass-Blowers.
Although I have not yet read The Birds, nor viewed Alfred Hitchcock’s cavalier film version of it; even for chapter six THE WORLD OF THE MACABRE: THE SHORT STORIES, I had read a good selection of the reviewed short stories: The Breakthrough, Don’t Look Now, Not After Midnight, A Border-Line Case [and I’ve just now understood the correct allusion, I had been mistakenly floundering in psychiatry for the allusion] and the humourous and sacrilegious The Way of the Cross.
Thus I was able to follow the cogent analyses .
Extremely surprisingly, in chapter seven CONCLUSION , the author of this secondary source, RM Kelly, decided that three of du Maurier’s novels
“transcend the narcotic effect of the body of her work: The Progress of Julius, Rebecca, and The Parasites. “
These three stood out for him ! What a shocker !
Although Kelly mentioned The Parasites a few times throughout his book in a positive light.
He had also compared and contrasted du Maurier’s oeuvre quite often with both Robert Browning’s and Robert Louis Stevenson’s .
According to Kelly, du Maurier single-handedly revived the Gothic novel genre in the 20th Century.
Last but not least, the word ‘archetypes’ was used several times throughout this book in the literary analyses, but I think what was really meant was ‘stereotypes’ and yet the two words are not really synonyms at all. I think the confusion arose because du Maurier had a life-long reputation of being interested in Jungian psychology. And currently, ‘archetypes’ is a buzzword, so the use of it merits linguistic attention.
Have a lovely day! 🌞☀️
KELLY, R.M. 1987. DAPHNE DU MAURIER in TWAYNE’S ENGLISH AUTHORS SERIES, TEAS 437. Kinley E Roby, editor. TWAYNE PUBLISHERS, an imprint of SIMON & SCHUSTER MACMILLAN, New York, N.Y., & London, U.K.
PR 6007 U47 Z74 1987
or 823 ‘ . 912
This was a successful read for me as I had read a substantial amount of du Maurier’s oeuvre and had been totally enchanted by her novels at least a dozen times.
For my comments on chapters one and two , click above on the ‘reading activity’ tab.
All of chapter three was devoted to analyzing REBECCA.
I had to read up to page 79 in chapter four LOVE, ADVENTURE, REBELLION, before a novel I had not read was reviewed -The King’s General, the only unread one in that chapter .
In chapter five THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY, again there was only one left unread -The Glass-Blowers.
Although I have not yet read The Birds, nor viewed Alfred Hitchcock’s cavalier film version of it; even for chapter six THE WORLD OF THE MACABRE: THE SHORT STORIES, I had read a good selection of the reviewed short stories: The Breakthrough, Don’t Look Now, Not After Midnight, A Border-Line Case [and I’ve just now understood the correct allusion, I had been mistakenly floundering in psychiatry for the allusion] and the humourous and sacrilegious The Way of the Cross.
Thus I was able to follow the cogent analyses .
Extremely surprisingly, in chapter seven CONCLUSION , the author of this secondary source, RM Kelly, decided that three of du Maurier’s novels
“transcend the narcotic effect of the body of her work: The Progress of Julius, Rebecca, and The Parasites. “
These three stood out for him ! What a shocker !
Although Kelly mentioned The Parasites a few times throughout his book in a positive light.
He had also compared and contrasted du Maurier’s oeuvre quite often with both Robert Browning’s and Robert Louis Stevenson’s .
According to Kelly, du Maurier single-handedly revived the Gothic novel genre in the 20th Century.
Last but not least, the word ‘archetypes’ was used several times throughout this book in the literary analyses, but I think what was really meant was ‘stereotypes’ and yet the two words are not really synonyms at all. I think the confusion arose because du Maurier had a life-long reputation of being interested in Jungian psychology. And currently, ‘archetypes’ is a buzzword, so the use of it merits linguistic attention.
Have a lovely day! 🌞☀️
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