Christine Brooke-Rose: motes, beams and the horse's mouth. Issue 2 (7th February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: White, Glyn
• Is Part Of: Textual practice. Volume 32:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 317
• Page End: 336
• Publication Date: 2018-02-07
• Subjects: Ambiguity -- author -- critic -- criticism -- Danielewski -- Derrida -- devices -- interpretation -- McHale -- Sage -- theory -- visual; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism, Textual -- Periodicals; Semiotics -- Periodicals; 801.95
• DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1413049
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-236X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay draws on personal correspondence with the Christine Brooke-Rose during the latter stages of her career and discusses her ambivalent status as theoretically 'dead' but still living both inside and outside the academy. In particular, the essay engages with Brooke-Rose's Thru, ambiguity, interpretation, the novel's relationship to contemporary theory and the exceptional nature of this author's critical and creative legacies.