(Un)like subjects : women, theory, fiction / / Gerardine Meaney

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812270403321
• Autore: Meaney Gerardine <1962-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-32145-4; 1-283-58645-2; 9786613898906; 0-203-12046-9; 1-136-32146-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Collana: Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature; (Un)like subjects : women, theory, fiction ; ; v. 10
• Disciplina: 809.39287
• Soggetti: Fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; Feminist literary criticism; Women and literature; Feminism and literature; Women in literature; Mothers in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 1993 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; New: (UN) Like subjects; New: Copyright Page; Old: (UN) Like subjects; Old: Copyright Page; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Contexts; A note on structure and terminology; 1. Between the mother and the Medusa; In search of the Etruscans; The nightmare of repetition; The mother; Her mother's daughter; The daughter as mother; Displacement of accent; The other medusa; Petrification and engulfment; Medusa's head; The gaze of the other; Resistance: the darkness within; The dark stranger; The Medusa; Engulfment and repetition; Castration or decapitation?Perseus as narcissus; 2. The mother as language, language as mother; In-between: the maternal body and writing; Language as engulfment; Splits and confusion: schizophrenese; Thomas's testament; Sounds expressing a condition; The naming ; game; Alienation and cognition; Women and madness; How is it possible to write as a woman?; 3. History and women's time; Thetic and the anachronic; Women's time; Fantasy, speculative fiction and subversion; Monumental time; Cyclical time; Female fantasies concerned with power; The origin of castration; Maternity and history; Breaking up (his)storyUndoing the sacrificial contract; Medusa and the Sphinx; The discourse of inequality: Rousseau and Engels; Choosing alienation; Losing communality; 4. (Un)Like subjects; Looking back through our mothers; Bearing the word; Daughter of the father? Or daughter of the mother?; Myths of writing; Language and legitimacy; Textual doubleness; The mother and death (of the word); Mother-of-the-son, daughter-of-the-mother; Another reading of 'Stabat Mater'; (Un)Like subjects: new ways of becoming; The space and time of the thetic; 5. Unknowing the true-real; Remembering/dismemberingBreaking the ice; Ahistorical or anachronic?; Disremembering; Plotinus, Narcissus and Dionysus; The mirror of Dionysus; The anachronic novel; Hysterical or schizophrenic?; Elsa's problem; Externalization and the concretization of the signifier; The 'hallucinatory icon'; The power of the ending; Forgetting and unknowing; Something other; 6. The abject and the absence of the ideal; The abject and the sublime; Death - the border - the abject; The sublime: modern and postmodern; Looking elsewhere for reality; The obscure sublime; The true-real and the sublime; Looking elsewhere for RealityConclusion; Anachronic history; Herethics; Unlike subjects; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix 1; Julia kristeva: a chronology of cited texts; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: What is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature?This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresses the questions about language, writing and the relations between women which have preoccupied the three most influential French feminists and three important contemporary British women novelists. Treating both fiction and theory as texts, she traces the connections between the theorists - Hélène Cixious, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva - and the novelists - Doris Lessing, Angela C