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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.