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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465680803321

Autore

Onega Jaén Susana

Titolo

Jeanette Winterson [[electronic resource] /] / Susana Onega

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2006

ISBN

1-84779-604-4

1-78170-112-1

1-84779-183-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Contemporary British novelists

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Of priests and prophets; 2 History and storytelling; 3 The art of love; 4 Multiple selves and worlds; 5 Only connect . . .; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's complete oeuvre, offering detailed analysis of her nine novels as well as addressing her non-fiction and minor fictional work. Susana Onega combines the study of formal issues such as narrative structure, perspective and point of view with thematic analyses approached from a variety of theoretical perspectives, from narratology and feminist theory to Hermetic and Kabalistic symbolism, to provide a comprehensive 'vertical' analysis of Winterson's novels.Onega reveals the books as complex linguistic artefacts, crammed with intertextual