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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827258203321

Autore

Waugh Patricia

Titolo

Feminine fictions : revisiting the postmodern / / Patricia Waugh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-32124-1

1-283-58585-5

9786613898302

0-203-12043-4

1-136-32125-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; ; v. 14

Disciplina

823.914099287

Soggetti

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Postmodernism (Literature) - English-speaking countries

Feminism and literature - English-speaking countries

Women and literature - English-speaking countries

Psychological fiction - History and criticism

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Sex role in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1989 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

FEMININE FICTIONS Revisting the postmodern; Copyright; FEMININE FICTIONS Revisting the postmodern; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Postmodernism And Feminism: Where Have All The Women Gone?; Postmodernism and feminism; Subjectivity, femininity, and the postmodern person; Impersonality, modernist aesthetics, and women writers; Feminism and realism: the 'liberal self; Chapter 2 Psychoanalysis, Gender, And Fiction: Alternative 'Selves'; The limits of consciousness; Freud on sexuality: humanist psychology and feminist debates; Language and desire: from Freud to Lacan



Women, mothering, and identity: the pre-oedipal  and literary implicationsTheorizing modern fiction: the challenge from feminist psychoanalysis; Chapter 3 From Modernist Textuality To Feminist Sexuality;  Or Why I'M No Longer A-Freud Of Virginia Woolf; Woolf, traditional readings: 'classic' modernist and liberal feminist; Woolf and the pre-oedipal: a rereading of To the Lighthouse; 'Something central which permeated': reconstructing Clarissa Dalloway; Vision and 're-vision': the later novels; Chapter 4 Post-War Women Writers: Challenging The 'Liberal Tradition'; Margaret Drabble

Anita BrooknerSylvia Plath; Ann Tyler; Grace Paley; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Postmodernism' and 'feminism' have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the relationship between feminist and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of psychoanalysis and in the context of the development of modern fiction in Britain and America. She attempts to uncover the reasons why women writers have been excluded from the considerations of postmodern art.</P