Contemporary women writers look back : from Irony to Nostalgia /
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 belated...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
2010.
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Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (189 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781441168658 1441168656 9781472542373 1472542371 9781441130235 1441130233 9781441114976 1441114971 |