03949nam^a2200433^a 450099100070082970753620020719050114.0990615s2000 enk b 001 0 eng 99036163033369452X (Macmillan)0333694538 (Macmillan pbk.)0312226667 (St. Martin's)b13259921-39ule_instDip.to Lingueita809.3/876/08221Armitt, Lucie,1962-169219Contemporary women's fiction and the fantastic /Lucie Armitt.Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :Macmillan Press ;New York :St. Martin's Press,2000.x, 257 p. ;23 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-252) and index.Contemporary Phantoms and Other Monsters -- Echoes and Exorcisms: Nineteenth-Century Reflections -- Dora Meets Scheherazade -- 1. The Grotesque Utopia: Joanna Russ, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, Jane Palmer and Monique Wittig. Female Grotesques: The Female Man, Dogwoman and Fevvers. Horizons and Hybridity: Jeanette Winterson and Monique Wittig. Women in Flight: The Watcher (1986) and Across the Acheron (1987). Gendering the Chronotope: Sexing the Cherry (1989) -- 2. Chronotopes and Cyborgs: Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ, Fay Weldon and Marge Piercy. The Polychronotopic Text: Kindred (1979). Splitting the Subject across Space and Time. Onco Mouse and Other Monsters: The Cloning of Joanna May (1989). The Post-Nuclear Family: Body of Glass (1991) -- 3. Vampires and the Unconscious: Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Bessie Head. The Vampire, the Jew and the One-Sex Body. Covering the Traces: The Robber Bride (1993). The Succubus: Beloved (1987).The Viennese Witch Doctor: A Question of Power (1974). Freud, Dora and Alias Grace (1996) -- 4. Ghosts and (Narrative) Ghosting: Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson and Toni Morrison. Rebecca: The Ghost(ed) Text. Apparitional Geometries: The Robber Bride (1993). A Ghostly Romance: Written on the Body (1992). Writing Black in White Ink: Beloved (1987) -- 5. Fairies and Feminism: Alice Thomas Ellis, Fay Weldon and Elizabeth Baines. Border-Crossings: Fairy Tale (1996). Spinsters and Stepmothers. Tennyson and the Tarot: The Cloning of Joanna May (1989). Briar Rose/Dead Dolls: The Birth Machine (1983) -- 6. Magic Realism Meets the Contemporary Gothic: Isabel Allende and Angela Carter. Evoking the Strange(r): The House of the Spirits (1985). Originary Tales: Eva Luna (1988). Magically Gothic: The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman (1972). Agoraphobic Reflections: Nights at the Circus (1984). Dancing with Death: Wise Children (1991).7. Mannequins in the Marketplace: Angela Carter, Pat Barker and Margaret Atwood. Women on the Market: Blow Your House Down (1984). The Return of (the Repressed) Dora: The Magic Toyshop (1967). Olympia and the Swan-Maiden. The (Market-) Value of Words: The Handmaid's Tale (1985). Mothering and Melancholia -- Conclusion: The Lost Mother.IngleseLetteratura fantasticaAutriciDonne nella letteraturaStoriaSec. 20NarrativaSec. 20Storia e criticaScrittriciSec. 20Storia e criticaFantasy fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.FictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistory20th century.Fantastic, The, in literature..b1325992109-03-2215-12-04991000700829707536LE012 809.387 6 ARM12012000096189le012-E0.00-l- 04240.i1396300415-12-04Contemporary women's fiction and the fantastic490528UNISALENTOle01215-12-04ma -engenk00