Umfang:
x, 189 p
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Online-Ressource Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781441147448
Serie:
Continuum Literary Studies
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Contemporary Women's Re-writing; Chapter 1. The Politics of Parody: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye; Chapter 2. 'Some books are not read in the right way': Parody and Reception in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook; Chapter 3. Parodic Self-Narratives: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle and The Blind Assassin; Chapter 4. Inheritances: Zadie Smith's On Beauty; Chapter 5. The Politics of Nostalgia: Jane Austen Recycled; Afterword: Belatedness; Notes; Bibliography; Index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781441168658
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Contemporary Women Writers Look Back From Irony to Nostalgia
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Großbritannien
;
Schriftstellerin
;
Geschichte 1970-2010
;
Englisch
;
Frauenliteratur
