Janet Frame’s Conceptualization of the Writing Process: From The Lagoon to Mirror City
Janet Frame’s texts are permeated with references to authorship. As Lydia Wevers points out in a stimulating Heideggarian analysis of Frame’s autobiography, “the question of being […] resounds through all her work – what is the “self,” what does it mean to be one, where is it to be found?”(59). I wo...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Zusammenfassung: | Janet Frame’s texts are permeated with references to authorship. As Lydia Wevers points out in a stimulating Heideggarian analysis of Frame’s autobiography, “the question of being […] resounds through all her work – what is the “self,” what does it mean to be one, where is it to be found?”(59). I would argue that, paradoxically, for Frame the answers to these questions are ultimately relatively simple, although their realisation is by no means easy to attain. According to her texts, the overwhelming response would be that, from Frame’s perspective, the question of being is almost exclusively a question of authorship. It follows that the self can only be a writer, and the challenge of what it means to be one entails almost entirely devoting one’s whole life to writing. The question of where it is to be found is what I aim to explore in this essay. |
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