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UNINA9910684570903321 |
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Carroll Rachel |
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Rereading heterosexuality : feminism, queer theory and contemporary fiction / / Rachel Carroll |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (160 pages) |
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American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
Heterosexuality in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliography (pages [149]-156) and index. |
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COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality; Part One: Revisiting the spinster; Chapter 1 'Becoming my own ghost': spinsterhood and the 'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity; Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal; Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality; Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A.M. Homes's The End of Alice. Chapter 4 Unauthorised reproduction: class, pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warner's Morvern CallarPart Three: Reproducing heterosexuality; Chapter 5 'First one thing and then the other': rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex; Chapter 6 Imitations of life: cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; Bibliography; Index. |
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Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and queer theory. Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between |
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heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. Key Features. A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory Insightful close readings of acclaimed novels, including Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Zoñ Heller's Notes on a Scandal, A. M. Homes' The End of Alice, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar and Sarah Waters' Affinity Topics range from spinsterhood and intergenerational sexuality to transgender and human cloning. |
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UNICAMPANIAVAN00077407 |
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Autore |
Galenus, Claudius |
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Galeni Omnia, quae extant singulari studio, summaque diligentia Io. Baptistae Rasarii emendata, nouo ordine, cuius etiam attulimus rationem, disposita, librorum nuper inuentorum accessione aucta, & magna ex parte in Latinam linguam conuersa. ... Cum privilegiis |
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Venetijs, : apud Vincentium Valgrisium, 1562 |
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Note generali |
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Riferimenti: EDIT16 CNCE 20195 |
Il frontespizio generale fa parte di [12] carte preliminari segnate * contenenti una prefazione del curatore Giovanni Battista Rasario, il piano dell'edizione dell'opera e i privilegi del re di Francia e del Senato veneto |
Corsivo, greco, romano; iniziali xilografiche |
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