Foreword
Dr Heather Ingman
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
A brief autobiography
Bowen in context
Chapter 1
'The Process of Reading is Reciprocal'
Genesis: Genesis of Ideas and Influences
Process: Pattern and Plot; Scene; Characters; Technique
An Experimental Writer
The Reader Must Take Responsibility
Chapter 2
By the Light of her Eye
Light: Reflection and Refraction; Light and its Cousins in the Novels
The Eye: A Writer's Eye; Characters and Their Eyes; Ocular Communication; Houses have Eyes
Chapter 3
'Place Feeling'
Origins of the Importance of Place for Bowen: Physical Place: Geology; Architectural Space; Archaeology; The Mobile Place; Atmosphere: The Liminal Place
Place in the Novels: The Early Novels; The 1930s Novels; The War-time Novel; The Post-War Novels
Chapter 4
An Artist in her Studio
Affinity with genres and artists
Patterns, Shapes, Geometry of Relationships, Puzzles: Pattern; The Shape of the Novel; The Geometry of Relationships; Puzzles
Two-dimensional work: Post-Impressionism; Surrealism; Futurism; Mirroring; Landscape; Chiaroscuro
Three-dimensional work: Assemblage; Sculpture; Objet Trouvé
Chapter 5
'I Collect Scraps to Make Scrap Screens'
Fairy Tales
Children's Stories
Biblical and Liturgical Collage
Literary Collage
Chapter 6
'A Camera at the Tip of Her Pen'
The Techniques
The 1930s Novels
Developments During and After the Second World War
War-time Short Stories: The Heat of the Day
The Final Novels
Chapter 7
Dyslocution: Casting off the Superstition of Syntax
Style
Dyslocution: Futurism; Fragmentation; Obliteration; Characteristics of Bowen's Syntax
The Influence of French
Poetic Techniques
Cubism
Envoi
Index
