Jean Rhys Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Postmodernism Postmodernism - correct answer aesthetic, cultural *metafiction* (narrative within narrative) *self-reflexivity* *blurring of boundaries* (no high & low culture) *sheer play and existential commitment* *pastiche* (Comic Mona Lisa) (pieces of art alluding to what came before, revisit old style vs. Modernism, reinvent everything) *linguistic scepticism/deconstruction* (poststructuralism: meaning collapsed, my pen is not your pen) Meaning = unstable Not just literature, als...

I provide a 1,500 word meditation on Jean Rhys’s daring and unconventional novel Wide Sargasso Sea. My reflection focuses upon the slow violence of slavery, exploring its insidious impacts upon Antoinette and other white creoles in the text. This essay builds towards the conclusion that the significant delay between slavery and its repercussion on white creoles could easily serve to conceal the causal connection between the two. However, in Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys makes this relationship v...

This is an assignment for the literature and theory module of English literature at Brighton university. It analyses the books Is There Nowhere Else We Could Meet by Nadine Gordimer, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, and Discourse on the Logic of Language by Marlene Nourbese Philip using the post-colonial theory.

Wide Sargasso Sea - Critical Analysis & Thematic Overview.

A 1st class essay exploring women's trauma and madness in Emily Dickinson's poem 'There's a Certain Slant of Light', Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Thoroughly researched, eloquently written, and fully referenced. Extract: Alas, female anxieties of identity loss, entrapment and surveillance continue today, forcing women either to submit to liminal half-lives or to violate gender norms. The latter entails a life of pu...

Comprehensive in-depth textual analysis of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. The analysis is categorised into characterisation, relationships, themes, literary device/ technique. Relevant quotes are highlighted. Written by an IB 45/45 Pointer.

These notes contain a detailed analysis of quotes from Part Two of Wide Sargasso Sea. They have been laid out in table format so that they are easy to turn into que cards and are great of the WJEC As exam in hitting A01 and A02.

The document chronologically tracks through the different sections in Part One of Wide Sargasso Sea and analyses the relevant quotes for each of the significant events. This is a six-page document contains lots of detail for AO1 and A02 in WJEC exam board. The quotes are also laid out in a table format so that they can be turned into cue cards easily.

These notes contain detailed quote analysis on the significant events and sections in Part Three. The quotes and analysis are also laid out in table format so that they can be turned into que cards quickly. They are also perfect for hitting A01 and A02 in WJEC As board.

This document specifically looks at the use of setting in Jean Rhys' novel Wide Sargasso Sea as a key device in the decent and development of the characters. It contains an overview of the various locations used, but it also has six pages of analysed quotes from the book to look at how the setting is used symbolically for Antoinette and Rochester. Due to Rhys's extensive use of devices in this area of the novel, it can be particularly useful for achieving A02 in WJEC board at AS as well as to f...