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1 online resource (189 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Continuum Literary Studies
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Authorship.
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Authorship. |
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Women authors.
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Women authors. |
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Women and literature.
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Women and literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Contemporary Women Writers Look Back. Continuum Intl Pub Group 2011 9781441147448 (OCoLC)657602612 |
| ISBN |
9781441168658 (electronic book) |
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1441168656 (electronic book) |
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9781441147448 |
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1441147446 |
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