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Janet Frameâs work is notorious for the demands it makes on reader and critic. This collection of nine new essays by international Frame specialists draws on a range of critical frameworks to explore fresh ways of looking at Frameâs fiction, poetry, and autobiography. At the same time, the essays plug into the energy of Frameâs work to challenge our thinking within and beyond these frameworks.
Frameworks offers a unique perspective on Frame studies today, showcasing its major concerns as well as heralding new Frame narratives for the decade ahead. Mindful of preceding Frame criticism, these essays use their contemporary vantage-point to recast seminal questions about the relationship between Janet Frameâs work and its critical contexts.
Each of the essays makes a case for framing her work in a particular way, but all are characterized by self-reflexivity regarding their own critical practice and the relationship they assume between exegetical framework and Frameâs work. Underlying this practice, and contained within the pun of the title, are the elementary-sounding yet fundamental questions of Frame studies: How does Frameâs work work? And how do we work with her work?
Frameworks offers a unique perspective on Frame studies today, showcasing its major concerns as well as heralding new Frame narratives for the decade ahead. Mindful of preceding Frame criticism, these essays use their contemporary vantage-point to recast seminal questions about the relationship between Janet Frameâs work and its critical contexts.
Each of the essays makes a case for framing her work in a particular way, but all are characterized by self-reflexivity regarding their own critical practice and the relationship they assume between exegetical framework and Frameâs work. Underlying this practice, and contained within the pun of the title, are the elementary-sounding yet fundamental questions of Frame studies: How does Frameâs work work? And how do we work with her work?
Jan Cronin lectures in contemporary literature in the Department of English at the University of Auckland. Simone Drichel lectures in postcolonial literature in the Department of English at the University of Otago.
"An excellent, attractively presented volume, which looks destined to play its own seminal role in Frame studies for quite some time to come." â Peter Marsden, Harvard University
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I: Meta-Critical Frame(s)
Jan Cronin: Through a Glass Darkly: Reading the Enigmatic Frame
Jennifer Lawn: Playing with Freud: Radical Narcissism and Intertextuality in Frameâs Intensive Care and Daughter Buffalo
II: Metaphysical Frame(s)
Lydia Wevers: Self Possession: âThingsâ and Janet Frameâs Autobiography
Anna Smaill: Beyond Analogy: Janet Frame and Existential Thought
Valérie Basnée: A Home in Language: The (Meta)Physical World of Janet Frameâs Poetry
Isabel Michell: âTurning the stone of beingâ: Janet Frameâs Migrant Poetic
III: Beyond the Frame(s) of Representation
Marc Delrez: âConquest of surfacesâ: Aesthetic and Political Violence in the Work of Janet Frame
Chris Prentice: Janet Frameâs Radical Thought: Symbolic Exchange and Seduction in Living in the Maniototo and The Carpathians
Simone Drichel: âSignposts to a world that is not even mentionedâ: Janet Frameâs Ethical Transcendence
Notes on Contributors
Index
Introduction
I: Meta-Critical Frame(s)
Jan Cronin: Through a Glass Darkly: Reading the Enigmatic Frame
Jennifer Lawn: Playing with Freud: Radical Narcissism and Intertextuality in Frameâs Intensive Care and Daughter Buffalo
II: Metaphysical Frame(s)
Lydia Wevers: Self Possession: âThingsâ and Janet Frameâs Autobiography
Anna Smaill: Beyond Analogy: Janet Frame and Existential Thought
Valérie Basnée: A Home in Language: The (Meta)Physical World of Janet Frameâs Poetry
Isabel Michell: âTurning the stone of beingâ: Janet Frameâs Migrant Poetic
III: Beyond the Frame(s) of Representation
Marc Delrez: âConquest of surfacesâ: Aesthetic and Political Violence in the Work of Janet Frame
Chris Prentice: Janet Frameâs Radical Thought: Symbolic Exchange and Seduction in Living in the Maniototo and The Carpathians
Simone Drichel: âSignposts to a world that is not even mentionedâ: Janet Frameâs Ethical Transcendence
Notes on Contributors
Index