Elizabeth BowenPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474458641.003.0012
A. Bennett
{"title":"Elizabeth Bowen on the Telephone","authors":"A. Bennett","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474458641.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474458641.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter proposes that telephones are critical in the plotting of most of Bowen’s novels, as well as in some of her stories. Bowen’s plots are often organized around the telephone and around telephone calls in a way that would have been inconceivable at the start of the twentieth century. Making a telephone call in Bowen can be seen as an ideal version of speech and even as an ideal model for literature itself, precisely because the telephone generates a sense of immediacy and unmediated presence while at the same time marking absence. At the same time simple object and eerily human, the uncanny telephone in Bowen suggests that communication is what her writing, and what literature more generally offers while at the same time contesting, displacing, and resisting it. Bowen’s work thereby challenges our very understanding of how literature as a form of communication between author and reader can be said to work.","PeriodicalId":359891,"journal":{"name":"Elizabeth Bowen","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128232657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth BowenPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26415-4_3
P. Laurence
{"title":"Terrains of the Imagination","authors":"P. Laurence","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-26415-4_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26415-4_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":359891,"journal":{"name":"Elizabeth Bowen","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115900256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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