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Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays
"A study in critical readership, this wide-ranging collection of essays challenges accepted theories on everything from classics such as Charlotte BrontdÆs Villette to more contemporary works like Margaret AtwoodÆs Life Before Man . Explored are ideas of sexual subversion and queer politics. LiteratureÆs sacred cows are reevaluated, and new ways to explore both reading and writing are offered."
240 pages, Paperback
First published September 26, 2002
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About the author
Patricia Duncker
25 books88 followersPatricia Duncker attended school in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, she read English at Newnham College, Cambridge.
She studied for a D.Phil. in English and German Romanticism at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
From 1993-2002, she taught Literature at the University of Aberystwyth, and from 2002-2006, has been Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, teaching the MA in Prose Fiction.
In January 2007, she moved to the University of Manchester where she is Professor of Modern Literature.
She studied for a D.Phil. in English and German Romanticism at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
From 1993-2002, she taught Literature at the University of Aberystwyth, and from 2002-2006, has been Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, teaching the MA in Prose Fiction.
In January 2007, she moved to the University of Manchester where she is Professor of Modern Literature.
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