Figuring The Woman Author In Contemporary Fiction
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Figuring The Woman Author In Contemporary Fiction
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Author : M. Eagleton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-12-15
Figuring The Woman Author In Contemporary Fiction written by M. Eagleton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-15 with Fiction categories.
If the author is 'dead', if feminism is 'post-', why does the figure of the woman author keep appearing as a central character in contemporary fiction? She is concerned with ownership but, equally, with loss; determined to enter the cultural field but also rejecting that field; looking for control but subject to duplicity; seeking power alongside desire. Drawing on a diverse range of contemporary authors - including Atwood, Byatt, Brookner, Coetzee, Lurie, LeGuin, Michèle Roberts, Shields, Spark, Weldon, Walker - this study explores the complexity and continuing fascination of this figure.
Clever Girls And The Literature Of Women S Upward Mobility
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Author : Mary Eagleton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-02-15
Clever Girls And The Literature Of Women S Upward Mobility written by Mary Eagleton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book follows the figure of ‘the clever girl’ from the post-war to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of contemporary British women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing austerity and declining social mobility. Though suggesting optimism, a public discourse of ‘opportunity’, ‘aspiration’ and ‘choice’ is often experienced as an anxious and chancy process. In a wide-ranging study, the book explores the struggle to move away from home and traditional notions of femininity; the persistent problems associated with women’s embodiment; the pressures of class and racial divisions; the new subjectivities of the neoliberal era; and the generational conflict underpinning austerity. The book ends with a consideration of feminism’s place as a phantom presence in this history of clever girls. This study will appeal to readers of contemporary women’s writing and to those interested in what has been one of the dominant social narratives of the post-war period from upward to declining mobility.
Contemporary Fiction
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Author : Vandana Pathak
language : en
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
Release Date : 2008
Contemporary Fiction written by Vandana Pathak and has been published by Sarup & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with American fiction categories.
Preface Contributors 1. Narrative Strategies and the Invisible inNeelum Saran Gour's Sikandar Chowk Park:Reconstructing Identities and (Inter- )Religious Confrontation - Ludmila Vol2. From The Sandal Trees to Facing the Mirror:A Herstorical Over-view of Same-SexLove in India - Ana García-Arroyo3. Literature Still Matters! The Namesake: Woman Reads Woman- Prem Srivastava4. The Celebration of Acculturation inMonica Ali's Brick Lane - Leela Kanal5. A Socio-Cultural Feminist Critique ofInside the Haveli within the Frame ofthe Marginal - Vaishali Naik6. Reason and Rebellion in Feminism: ShashiDeshpa.
The Female Figure In Contemporary Historical Fiction
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Author : K. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-10-29
The Female Figure In Contemporary Historical Fiction written by K. Cooper and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-29 with Social Science categories.
From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.
Feminist Literary Theory
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Author : Mary Eagleton
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-12-20
Feminist Literary Theory written by Mary Eagleton and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Now in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field Fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field over the last decade Includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches and theoretical positions in contemporary feminist literary studies Features a new section, Writing 'Glocal', which covers feminism's dialogue with postcolonial, global and spatial studies Revised chapter introductions provide readers with helpful contextual information while extensive notes offer recommendations for further reading
Contemporary American Women Writers
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Author : Lois Parkinson Zamora
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-29
Contemporary American Women Writers written by Lois Parkinson Zamora and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection brings together critical essays that examine questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers among them Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisnernos. The essays consider how identities and societies are dramatized in particular works of fiction, and how these works reflect cultural communities outside the fictional frame - often the communities in which their authors live and work. The essays included here concern fictional representations of African American, Latino, Asian American, Native American, Anglo and Euro-American communities and their working interactions in the multicultural United States. Each critic asks, in his or her own way, how a particular writer transforms her social grounding into language and literature. The introduction includes an overview of the range of literary criticism devoted to contemporary American women writers, and an extensive bibliography of complementary critical readings is provided to encourage further study. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary literature will find the text an invaluable guide to contemporary women's writing in America, and the range of criticism that this has given rise to.
Novel Ideas
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Author : Barbara Shoup
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2013-05-01
Novel Ideas written by Barbara Shoup and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to enhance its use in the writing classroom. Dorothy Allison recalls "deliciously self-indulgent" days of writing in her bathrobe, wrapped in misery and exultation; Peter Cameron explains how he made the move from short fiction to the novel with the aid of a music composer's notebook to track the movement of his characters. Writers as different as Ha Jin, Jill McCorkle, Richard Ford, and Michael Chabon describe their unique approaches to their work while consistently affirming the necessity of committing to the hard effort of it while also remaining open to surprise. Aspiring novelists will find hands-on strategies for beginning, working through, and revising a novel; accomplished novelists will discover new ways to solve the problems they face in process; and serious readers of contemporary fiction will enjoy a glimpse into the way novels are made. Includes interviews with:Dorothy AllisonLarry BrownPeter CameronMichael ChabonMichael CunninghamRobb Forman DewRichard FordHa JinPatricia HenleyCharles JohnsonWally LambValerie MartinJill McCorkleSena Jeter NaslundLewis NordanSheri ReynoldsS. J. RozanJane SmileyLee SmithTheodore Weesner
Virginia Woolf S Afterlives
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Author : Monica Latham
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-30
Virginia Woolf S Afterlives written by Monica Latham and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-30 with Drama categories.
This book explores Virginia Woolf’s afterlives in contemporary biographical novels and drama. It offers an extensive analysis of a wide array of literary productions in which Virginia Woolf appears as a fictional character or a dramatis persona. It examines how Woolf’s physical and psychological features, as well as the values she stood for, are magnified, reinforced or distorted to serve the authors’ specific agendas. Beyond general theoretical issues about this flourishing genre, this study raises specific questions about the literary and cultural relevance of Woolf’s fictional representations. These contemporary narratives inform us about Woolf’s iconicity, but they also mirror our current literary, cultural and political concerns. Based on a close examination of twenty-five works published between 1972 and 2019, the book surveys various portraits of Woolf as a feminist, pacifist, troubled genius, gifted innovative writer, treacherous, competitive sister and tragic, suicidal character, or, on the contrary, as a caricatural comic spirit, inspirational figure and perspicacious amateur sleuth. By resurrecting Virginia Woolf in contemporary biofiction, whether to enhance or debunk stereotypes about the historical figure, the authors studied here contribute to her continuous reinvention. Their diverse fictional portraits constitute a way to reinforce Woolf’s literary status, re-evaluate her work, rejuvenate critical interpretations and augment her cultural capital in the twenty-first century
Contemporary Women S Post Apocalyptic Fiction
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Author : Susan Watkins
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-02-29
Contemporary Women S Post Apocalyptic Fiction written by Susan Watkins and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.
The History Of British Women S Writing 1970 Present
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Author : Mary Eagleton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-29
The History Of British Women S Writing 1970 Present written by Mary Eagleton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing since 1970.