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In describing the writing of a biography about her mother, Audrey Wearne, Heather Wearne writes of her endeavour to 'inscribe the lives of ordinary domesticated women into texts of cultural significance.'
Examines the role of exegesis (in the form of Prefaces, Introductions or Forewords) as 'a framing device positioned between the world created in the fiction (or play or poem) and the world the reader inhabits' with particular reference to the works of Vladimir Nabokov and Edgar Allan Poe and, to a lesser extent, the writing of Graham Greene and Roland Bartes.
(p. 50-66)
Boxersi"We both step into the thickly twined ring,",Claudette Bass,
single work poetry
(p. 67)