Screen LibraryMetafiction and metahistory in contemporary women's writing
This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, the essays assembled here offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230206281 |
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This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, the essays assembled here offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history. 'This important collection of essays catches a current literary (and literary critical) moment, engaging directly with the steady and seemingly continuing interest in the past shown by contemporary women writers of fiction. In particular, it offers the contemporary literary critic a series of authoritative guides on how to straddle historical periods whilst remaining firmly rooted in the twenty-first century - this is a much needed volume.' - Lucie Armitt, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Salford, UK. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 240 p. |
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9780230005044 9780230206281 : 023020628X : |
| CLC: | I11 |
| Contents: | Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing-- A.Heilmann & M.Llewellyn PART ONE: TOWARDS A RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF HISTORY AND IDENTITY The Witch, The Puritan and the Prophet: Historical Novels and Seventeenth-Century History-- Katharine Hodgkin History as Story in Angela Carter's American Ghosts and Old World Wonders-- Sarah Gamble Falling off the Edge of the World: History and Gender in Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic-- Sherry Booth Time, Space and (Her)Story in the Fiction of Eva Figes-- Julia Tofantsuk From Demidenko to Da |