CRITICISM

Andersen, Marguerite. Review of Gut Symmetries, by Jeanette Winterson. Herizons 11, no. 4 (fall 1997): 39.

Andersen offers a positive assessment of Gut Symmetries.

Anshaw, Carol. “Power Outage.” The Advocate (21 November 2000): 110.

Anshaw evaluates the weaknesses of The PowerBook.

Boddy, Kasia. “Love, Again.” Times Literary Supplement (1 September 2000): 9.

Boddy offers a negative assessment of The PowerBook, but notes that “there is something touching in the very failure of the project.”

Dieckman, Katherine. “An Ego As Big as the Ritz.” Voice Literary Supplement (11 April 1995): 10.

Dieckman criticizes Winterson's prose in Art and Lies.

Emck, Katy. “On the High Seas of Romance.” Times Literary Supplement (3 January 1997): 21.

Emck examines the combination of fairy-tale, romantic quest, and metaphysical motifs in Gut Symmetries.

Farwell, Marilyn R. “The Postmodern Lesbian Text: Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body.” In Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives, pp. 168–94. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Farwell explores Winterson's juxtaposition of conventional and postmodern narrative techniques in Sexing the Body and Written on the Body.

Grealy, Lucy. “Hexing the Cherry.” Village Voice (22 April 1997): 55.

Grealy commends Winterson's rich, erotic language in Gut Symmetries, but finds shortcomings in the novel's authorial monologues and “ludicrous” conclusion.

Grice, Helena, and Tim Woods, eds. “I'm Telling You Stories”: Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading. Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998, 136 p.

Grice and Woods present a collection of critical essays offering analysis of Winterson's fiction from multiple theoretical perspectives.

Hampl, Bill. “High Seas of Cyberspace.” Gay and Lesbian Review 8, no. 1 (January-February 2001): 44–45.

Hampl examines the strengths of The PowerBook.

Hinds, Hilary. “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Reaching Audiences Other Lesbian Texts Cannot Reach.” In New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings, edited by Sally Munt, pp. 153–72. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

Hinds examines the critical and popular acclaim of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and its television adaptation, discussing the book's success as a crossover literary work that offers an important view of lesbian experience for mainstream audiences.

Oates, Joyce Carol. “Deep in the Forest of Aeros.” Times Literary Supplement (26 June 1998): 26.

Oates offers a mixed assessment of The World and Other Places.

Peck, Dale. “The Furies.” Village Voice (20 February 1996): 53.

Peck offers a negative assessment of Art Objects.

Sage, Lorna. “Finders Keepers.” Times Literary Supplement (17 June 1994): 22.

Sage offers a mixed assessment of Art and Lies, describing the novel as “safely good, but not great.”

Swanson, Diana L. “Playing in Jeanette Winterson's ‘The Poetics of Sex’: Rescuing Words for Lesbians.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 7, no. 4 (1997): 325–37.

Swanson discusses the significance of play—linguistic, metaphorical, and structural—in “The Poetics of Sex.”

Vaux, Anna. “Body Language.” Times Literary Supplement (4 September 1992): 20.

Vaux examines the weaknesses of Written on the Body, arguing that there is “something unpleasant at the centre of the book.”

Wilbee, Kaiberley. Review of The World and Other Places, by Jeanette Winterson. Herizons 13, no. 3 (fall 1999): 33–34.

Wilbee offers a negative assessment of The World and Other Places.

Additional coverage of Winterson's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: British Writers Supplement, Vol. 4; Contemporary Authors, Vol. 136; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 58; Contemporary Novelists; Contemporary Popular Writers; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 207; DISCovering Authors 3.0; DISCovering Authors Modules: Popular Fiction and Genre Authors; Feminist Writers; Gay and Lesbian Literature, Vol. 1; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 2; St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers; and 20th-Century Romance & Historical Writers.