UID:
edocfu_9959202567702883
Format:
1 online resource (200 p.)
ISBN:
1-4725-4237-1
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1-283-00439-9
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9786613004390
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1-4411-6865-6
Series Statement:
Continuum literary studies
Content:
"Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late twentieth-century fiction was 'The Literature of Exhaustion,' authors have been retelling and recycling stories. Barth was, however, right to identify in postmodern fiction a particular self-consciousness about its belatedness at the end of a long literary tradition. This book traces the move in contemporary women's writing from the self-conscious, ironic parodies of postmodernism to the nostalgic and historical turn of the twenty-first century. It analyses how contemporary women writers deal with their literary inheritances, offering an illuminating and provocative study of contemporary women writers' re-writings of previous texts and stories. Through close readings of novels by key contemporary women writers including Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Emma Tennant and Helen Fielding, and of the ITV adaptation, Lost in Austen, Alice Ridout examines the politics of parody and nostalgia, exploring the limitations and possibilities of both in the contexts of feminism and postcolonialism"--Publisher description
Content:
Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late 20th-century fiction was 'The Literature of Exhaustion,' authors have been retelling and recycling stories. Barth was, however, right to identify in postmodern fiction a particular self-consciousness about its belatedness at the end of a long literary tradition. This book traces the move in contemporary women's writing from the self-conscious, ironic parodies of postmodernism to the nostalgic and historical turn of the 21st century. It analyses how contemporary women writers deal with their literary inheritances, offering an illuminating and provocative study of contemporary women writers' re-writings of previous texts and stories. Through close readings of novels by key contemporary women writers including Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Emma Tennant and Helen Fielding, and of the ITV adaptation, Lost in Austen, Alice Ridout examines the politics of parody and nostalgia, exploring the limitations and possibilities of both in the contexts of feminism and postcolonialism
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction : Contemporary women's re-writing -- The politics of parody : Toni Morrison's The bluest eye -- 'Some books are not read in the right way' : parody and reception in Doris Lessing's The golden notebook -- Parodic self-narratives : Margaret Atwood's Lady oracle and The blind assassin -- Inheritances : Zadie Smith's On beauty -- The politics of nostalgia : Jane Austen recycled -- Afterword : belatedness
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Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Contemporary Women's Re-writing -- 1. The Politics of Parody: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye -- 2. 'Some books are not read in the right way': Parody and Reception in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook -- 3. Parodic Self-Narratives: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle and The Blind Assassin -- 4 Inheritances: Zadie Smith's On Beauty -- 5 The Politics of Nostalgia: Jane Austen Recycled -- 6 Afterword: Belatedness -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Also issued in print
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4411-3023-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4411-4744-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472542373
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