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Contemporary women writers look back : from Irony to Nostalgia / Alice Ridout

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Ridout, Alice
Published
London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010.
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1 online resource (189 pages).
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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
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9781441168658 (electronic bk.)
1441168656 (electronic bk.)
9781472542373 (online)
1472542371
9781441130235 (paperback)
1441130233
9781441114976 (electronic book)
1441114971
9781441147448
1441147446
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index.
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