The novel Our Lady of the Flowers was written by Jean Genet (1910–86) in 1942 at Fresnes prison but not published until 1944. Genet in this novel addresses three major themes: homosexuality, thievery, and murder, with a focus on the… Read More ›
Jean Genet
Analysis of Jean Genet’s The Miracle of the Rose
The French novel The Miracle of the Rose was written by Jean Genet (1910–86) in 1943 while the author was imprisoned in La Santé penitentiary in Paris for theft. Published in 1946, this autobiographical work is based on the author’s… Read More ›
Analysis of Jean Genet’s The Balcony
His plays are concerned with expressing his own feeling of helplessness and solitude when confronted with the despair and loneliness of man caught in the hall of mirrors of the human condition, inexorably trapped by an endless progression of images… Read More ›
Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics
Kate Millett was the first notable feminist after Simone de Beauvoir to address the construction of woman within male writing. According to Millett, the man-woman relationship is deeply embedded in power structures with political implications – thus she derived the… Read More ›
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