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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824611003321

Titolo

Fiction, crime, and the feminine / / edited by Redouane Abouddahab and Josiane Paccaud-Huguet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2011

ISBN

1-283-14270-8

9786613142702

1-4438-2828-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AbouddahabRedouane

Paccaud-HuguetJosiane

Disciplina

809.3872

Soggetti

Women and literature

Female offenders in literature

Crime in literature

Femininity in literature

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.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CRIMELESS FEMININITY; THE LAW OF GENDER; LADY AUDLEY AND LYDIA GWILT; RE-WRITING A WOMAN'S CRIME; TESS THE MURDERESS, EUSTACIA THE ADDER; "THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE"; FROM THE MURDERER'S SOLILOQUY TO THE POISONER'S MONOLOGUE; FROM CONFIDENT TO MURDERER; RED BEADS AND FUNERAL HOMES; ANTIGONE LOST IN "THE FURY OF THE AGE OF BAR-ROOMS"; THE OBSCENE TRAGEDY OF THE DEATH DRIVE IN I HARDLY KNEW YOU, BY EDNA O'BRIEN; THE MILKY WAKE:SACRIFICE AS JOUISSANCE IN TONI MORRISON'S WORK; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

The form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Other's desire and the strange libido attached to violence: in other words, there is an ambivalent dimension inherent in the scenarios and fantasies we enjoy by proxy. Are not the fairy tales of our childhood full of images of death and violence, whose fascinating presence is paradoxically meant to make us feel all the more safely tucked up in bed? After ...