Dramatic Immediacy and Imaginative Distortion in Robert Olen Butler's "Anne Boleyn," "Severance"
Résumé
An essay presents short story criticism of the story "Anne Boleyn" from the collection "Severance" by Robert Olen Butler. Topics include the psychological portrayal of the English queen Anne Boleyn as having a maternal body, the attachment of Boleyn to her children in the story, and the role of desire in the text.