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The disruption of the feminine in Henry James /

The women of Henry James's novels have intrigued critics for a hundred years. Priscilla Walton brings a post-structuralist feminist perspective to James's work. Drawing on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray, she focuses on the constructed Othe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walton, Priscilla L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1992.
Series:Heritage.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Releasing the Screw of Interpretation
  • 1. The Realist/Referential Construct
  • 2. Feminine Representation in Early Works
  • I. The Limits of Ideological Discourse in Roderick Hudson
  • II. Ideology and Subjectivity in The Portrait of a Lady
  • 3. Manifestations of the Feminine Other in a Selection of James's Short Stories
  • 4. The Ambassadors and Feminine Reading
  • 5. The Wings of the Dove and Feminine Writing
  • 6. The Golden Bowl and Feminine Revisions
  • Conclusion: Feminine Textuality.