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Waiting for the end : gender and ending in the contemporary novel /
"Waiting for the End examines two dozen contemporary novels within the context of a half century of theorizing about the function of ending in narrative. That theorizing about ending generated a powerful dynamic a quarter-century ago with the advent of feminist criticism of "masculinist&qu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison [N.J.] :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The beginning of the end
- Tales of the masculine narrative paradigm
- City of endings: Ian McEwan's Amsterdam
- The lure of the story: Kazuo Ishiguro's When we were orphans
- Writing like a boy: Stephen Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse
- Writing "Like a man": Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin
- The metaphoricity ending: Colum McCann's This side of brightness
- Ending in a pickle: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children
- A proliferation of endings: Graham Swift's Waterland
- The joke's on Freud: D.M. Thomas's The white hotel
- Undoing the Paradigm : perhaps
- The shell game of ending(s): John Fowles's The French lieutenant's woman
- "Double" ending by misunderstanding: Anthony Burgess's A clockwork orange
- Is there an ending in this text? David Lodge's Changing places
- The faked climax and the anticlimax in Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur
- Will the real author please stand up? Ian McEwan's Atonement
- Another question of ending: L.P. Hartley's The go-between
- An ending opening to the future: Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale
- Ending elsewhere: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso sea
- Escaping the paradigm by ignoring it
- The great circle: Doris Lessing's The golden notebook
- Recurrent circles: Nawal El Saadawi's The fall of the Imam
- Is there a novel in this text? Julian Barnes's A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
- Can two novellas make a novel? A.S. Byatt's Angels & insects
- Beginning again--and again: Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler
- Troubling linearity: Manlio Argueta's Cuzcatlán
- The ending is in the beginning: Jeanette Winterson's Written on the body.