I Have what I Gave: The Fiction of Janet Frame |
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Mavis is a woman of many names but no fixed identity : And I , Mavis Furness , Mavis Barwell , Mavis Halleton , perhaps ... just Alice Thumb , or Ariella , Lokinia , or Maui's sister , or mere Naomi ... Or Violet Pansy Proudlock ...
Mavis is a woman of many names but no fixed identity : And I , Mavis Furness , Mavis Barwell , Mavis Halleton , perhaps ... just Alice Thumb , or Ariella , Lokinia , or Maui's sister , or mere Naomi ... Or Violet Pansy Proudlock ...
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Mavis takes a feminist stance in her depiction of Theo . She parodies the patriarchal assumptions on which Christian belief rests and the dogma that God made man in his own image . Theo is loud , arrogant and vain , being overly ...
Mavis takes a feminist stance in her depiction of Theo . She parodies the patriarchal assumptions on which Christian belief rests and the dogma that God made man in his own image . Theo is loud , arrogant and vain , being overly ...
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Mavis herself exemplifies the creative individual . Entering her Maniototo has been the culmination of her travels . In the novel's final chapter she returns to Baltimore , to learn of the death of her friend Brian .
Mavis herself exemplifies the creative individual . Entering her Maniototo has been the culmination of her travels . In the novel's final chapter she returns to Baltimore , to learn of the death of her friend Brian .
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