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Article: Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- December 9, 1996
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By Terry Castle, Columbia. 160 pp. $19.95.
Terry Castle is a literature scholar possessed. Spectral metaphors are trendy these days in academic Pomo World, but they often provide nothing more than a flashy way of talking about subtext; at one conference a few years ago, panelists tactlessly discussed "Derrida's ghost" in the presence of the living man, who was in fact getting on in years and looking pale. Terry Castle's spirits are different. Intimately rooted in the human realm, they inevitably illuminate and delight.
Before homosexuality became an explicit theme in her work, Castle spent years working on what was to be a landmark analysis of ...
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Article: Going to the Well
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...RADCLYFFE HALL A Woman Called John By Sally Cline Overlook ... known book, The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall's most vexing problem was not solitude ... Bournemouth, England, in 1880, Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall lived the pained, meditative existence ...
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