LEADER 05428oam 2200793I 450 001 9910462280603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-58645-2 010 $a9786613898906 010 $a0-203-12046-9 010 $a1-136-32146-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203120460 035 $a(CKB)2670000000237940 035 $a(EBL)1016100 035 $a(OCoLC)810203377 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000740420 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11409322 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000740420 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10700581 035 $a(PQKB)10674394 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1016100 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1016100 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10596227 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389890 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000237940 100 $a20180706e20121993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a(Un)like subjects $ewomen, theory, fiction /$fGerardine Meaney 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature 225 0 $a(Un)like subjects : women, theory, fiction ;$vv. 10 300 $aFirst published in 1993 by Routledge. 311 $a0-415-75235-3 311 $a0-415-52427-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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 327 $aCastration 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 327 $aBreaking 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 327 $aRemembering/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 327 $aLooking elsewhere for RealityConclusion; Anachronic history; Herethics; Unlike subjects; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix 1; Julia kristeva: a chronology of cited texts; Index 330 $aWhat is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature?This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresses the questions about language, writing and the relations between women which have preoccupied the three most influential French feminists and three important contemporary British women novelists. Treating both fiction and theory as texts, she traces the connections between the theorists - He?le?ne Cixious, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva - and the novelists - Doris Lessing, Angela C 410 0$aRLE: Women, Feminism and Literature 606 $aFiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFeminist literary criticism 606 $aWomen and literature 606 $aFeminism and literature 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aMothers in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFeminist literary criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature. 615 0$aFeminism and literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aMothers in literature. 676 $a809.39287 700 $aMeaney$b Gerardine$f1962-,$0826320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462280603321 996 $aUn)like subjects$91850289 997 $aUNINA