Young Composers, May 31, 1990

Concert program for Young Composers, May 31, 1990

Barry Lieberman & Friends, Maria Larionoff and Robin McCabe, May 6, 2012

Concert program for Barry Lieberman & Friends present Guest Artists, May 6, 2012

World Percussion Bash, May 28, 2013

Concert program for World Percussion Bash, May 28, 2013

UW Opera, La finta giardiniera, May 14, 2008

Concert program for UW Opera, La finta giardiniera, May 14, 16, 18, 2008

Eugene Onegin, May 17, 2009

Concert program for Eugene Onegin, May 17, 2009

Spring Opera Gala, May 14, 2010

Concert program for Spring Opera Gala, May 14, 2010

'It was as if she had said....': May Sinclair and reading narratives of cure

May Sinclair was one of the most widely read and successful English women novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. She had interests and themes in common with many of those now considered to have been at the heart of English modernism. In terms of formal experimentation too her concerns chime with the aesthetic innovations of, for example, pound, Eliot and Woolf. Her early interest in psychoanalysis and support for the suffrage campaign also mark her out as a modern. Despite some work from feminist literary critics and her partial categorisation as modernist, however, her work still lacks a critical framework within which it can be read. Indeed, some of the work done by feminist critics on her has paradoxically re-marginalised her. In this thesis I aim to provide one critical framework through which Sinclair's work can be read. My contention is that the occluding of one aspect of her work and thought- its movement toward intellectual, emotional and aesthetic wholeness - has marred previous critical readings of her. By paying attention to this through a focus on discourses of cure, this thesis reads Sinclair's work with an awareness of its language, cultural context and intertextual relations. Early twentieth-century medical discourse, psychoanalysis, mysticism, the chivalric and the psychical are all used to read the works. At the same time, my aim is to read Sinclair's work without eliding its difficulties. Rather, I aim to read her in a way that acknowledges the difficulties of and fraught moments in her writing as markers of its significance.

A Student Composers' Recital, May 7, 1959 8:30pm

Concert program for A Student Composers' Recital, May 7, 1959

Senior Recital, May 6, 1937

Concert program for Senior Recital, May 6, 1937

Music of Today Series, UW Modern Ensemble, May 19, 2014

Concert Program for Music of Today Series, UW Modern Ensemble, May 19, 2014

Noon Recital, Music for Harpsichord and Piano, May 14, 1969

Concert Program for Noon Recital, Music for Harpsichord and Piano, May 14, 1969

A Program of Original Compositions, May 6, 1943

Concert Program for A Program of Original Compositions, May 6, 1943

Chamber Music Recital, May 1, 1960

Concert Program for Chamber Music Recital, May 1st, 1960

The Madrigal Singers, May 27, 1987

Concert Program for The Madrigal Singers, May 27, 1987

The University Wind Sinfonietta, May 17, 1967

Concert program for The University Wind Sinfonietta, May 17, 1967