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(0)Bernard Schweizer
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"Rececca West (1892-1983) was a prominent English critic, journalist, and novelist. She contributed to feminist and socialist magazines, had a lengthy relationship with H. G. Wells, and was named Dame of the British Empire in 1959. Her literary reputation declined after 1970 and was revived in the mid-1980s, with the posthumous publication of three novels and a memoir, as well as the reissue of several earlier works. With the violent disintegration...
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"Rebecca West Today is the first-ever essay collection on this important twentieth-century artist and thinker. It is organized in a multidisciplinary fashion, with contributions grouped into four methodological concentrations: historicism, gender studies, textual analysis, and philosophical approaches. This procedure demonstrates that West's work is susceptible to a variety of approaches and critical methods, and it helps to identify a core of issues...