http://hdl.handle.net/2328/14 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:27:08 GMT 2013-06-19T11:27:08Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26661 Title: Looking Back in Anger: The Transformation of Childhood Memories in Two West Indian Novels. Authors: Dooley, Gillian Abstract: Anger, for all its negative aspects, can provide creative urges which produce works of art of great power. The anger of the adult writer is often directed against the forces which tried to control and repress that writer as a child, so that the novel written in anger is frequently in essence, even if not in detail, autobiographical. Dickens' novels, for example, often deal with the child victim of industrialisation - dramatising again and again his own unhappy childhood. And another great feature of the European ascendancy, imperialism, spread conditions across the world which created more anger among the colonised peoples of the world. Ironically, however, the means to express this anger was also often provided to those who had the intelligence to use it. Perhaps it represents a triumph of western liberal education, over those who tried to use it as a weapon of oppression, that it could produce subtle and articulate writers like V.S. Naipaul and Jamaica Kincaid. Description: An earlier version of this article was published in The West Indian Fiction, ed. R.K. Dhawan, (New Delhi: Prestige, 2000) 164-172. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26661 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26657 Title: Caxton’s edition of Malory’s Le Morte Darthur: compositorial challenges and chapter divisions Authors: McBain, Jean Abstract: The author presents here four findings drawn from close analysis of the chapter and book divisions in Caxton’s edition of Le Morte Darthur. The first three of these bear particular relevance to scholars interested in textual alterations that might have been made to Le Morte Darthur for copy-fitting purposes. In particular, these results suggest closer attention might usefully be paid to the text at interlinear chapter divisions, and in quires a-d and ee, as the extreme contraction of formatting at these points suggests that there may be associated textual contractions. The last finding provides circumstantial support for the view that Caxton revised the Roman War section, and further indicates that there is some probability that this section was set from a different exemplar to the rest of the edition. Most of all, though, it is hoped that this study has demonstrated how much we might still be able to learn about techniques of the early hand-press period, even from a text as persistently studied as Le Morte Darthur. Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26657 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26597 Title: 'You are my Australia': Brian Medlin's contribution to Iris Murdoch’s concept of Australia in The Green Knight Authors: Dooley, Gillian Mary Abstract: Australian radical and philosopher Brian Medlin met Iris Murdoch at Oxford in the early 1960s, and the correspondence between them, now held at Flinders University in South Australia, covers a period of more than twenty years. In his letters he regaled her with Australian jokes, travel stories and anecdotes, and answered her many questions about Australian flora and fauna, and language. While she was writing The Green Knight she was particularly keen to quiz him about the Australian vernacular to help her with the character of the publican Kenneth Rathbone. This paper traces the evolution of Murdoch’s concept of Australia from An Unofficial Rose to Jackson’s Dilemma, and in particular the way her portrayal of Australia in The Green Knight was influenced by her friendship with Medlin. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26597 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26561 Title: 'Naipaul's Women Revisited' Authors: Dooley, Gillian Mary Abstract: This article is a reconsideration of V.S. Naipaul’s attitude toward women, following from the author’s 2005 article “Naipaul’s Women.” Various recent statements Naipaul has made about female authors, including Diana Athill and Jane Austen, are examined in the light of his writings, both fact and fiction, about women in general and women writers in particular. Some consideration is also given to his relations with women in his personal life, including his sister and his wife. The final assessment is that Naipaul’s impatient “off the cuff” statements about women in interviews and at public events are not reflected in his nonfiction writings.] Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26561 2012-12-01T00:00:00Z