LEADER 04339nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910456388203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-92507-8 010 $a9786610925070 010 $a0-88920-742-9 010 $a0-585-33406-4 035 $a(CKB)111004365725590 035 $a(OCoLC)45844439 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10121195 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000208112 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11180088 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208112 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10239902 035 $a(PQKB)10569351 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3050191 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17999 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3243748 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3050191 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10135327 035 $a(OCoLC)922951057 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004365725590 100 $a19990310d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNarrative in the feminine$b[electronic resource] $eDaphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard /$fSusan Knutson 210 $aWaterloo, Ont. $cWilfrid Laurier University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-88920-301-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPt. 1. Gender and Narrative Grammar. 1. Writing Women: Some Introductory Questions. 2. Theories of the (Masculine) Generic. 3. Narrative, Gnosis, Cognition, Knowing: Em[+female]bodied Narrative and the Reinvention of the World -- Pt. 2. A Narratological Reading of How Hug a Stone. 4. Fabula: Beyond Quest Teleology. 5. Story: Where the Body Is Written. 6. Textual Subjectivity, Marlatt's i/eye. 7. Intertextual Narrative -- Pt. 3. A Narratological Reading of Picture Theory. 8. Fabula: Hologram. 9. Story: The Holographic Plate. 10. Text: In Which the Reader Sees a Hologram in Her Mind's Eye. 11. Intertextual Metanarrative -- Pt. 4. Afterword. 12. In the Feminine. 330 $aWhat does it mean to tell a story from a woman's point of view? How have Canadian anglophone and francophone writers translated feminist literary theory into practice? Avant-garde writers Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard answer these, and many more questions, in their two groundbreaking works, now made more accessible through the careful, narratological readings and theoretical background in 'Narrative in the Feminine'. Susan Knutson begins her study with an analysis of the contributions made by Marlatt and Brossard to international feminist theory. Part Two presents a narratological reading of 'How Hug a Stone', arguing that at the deepest level of narrative, Marlatt constructs a gender-inclusive human subject which defaults not to the generic masculine but to the feminine. Part Three proposes a parallel reading of 'Picture Theory', Brossard's playful novel that draws us into (re-) readings of many other texts written by Brossard, Barnes, Wittig, Joyce, de Beauvoir, Homer ... to name a few. Chapter 12 closes with a reflection on the expression ecriture au feminin Quebecois contribution to an international theoretical debate. Readers who care about feminist writing and language theory, and students and teachers of Canadian literature and critical and queer studies, will find this book invaluable for its careful readings, its scholarly overview, and its extension of the feminist concept of the generic. Not least, the study is a guide to two important works of the leading experimental writers of Canada and Quebec, Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard. 606 $aFeminist literary criticism 606 $aDialogue in literature 606 $aCanadian literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCanadian literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFeminist literary criticism. 615 0$aDialogue in literature. 615 0$aCanadian literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCanadian literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $aC811/.54 700 $aKnutson$b Susan Lynne$0861364 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456388203321 996 $aNarrative in the feminine$91922409 997 $aUNINA