Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and the aesthetics of trauma [[electronic resource] /] / Patricia Moran

• Autore: Moran Patricia (Patricia L.)
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Houndmills, Basingstoke and Hampshire, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.91209
• Soggetto topico: Psychic trauma
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-208) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Experiences as a Body: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma; 2 ""Cock-A-doodle-dum"": Desmond MacCarthy, Sexology, and the Writing of A Room of One's Own; 3 ""The Flaw in the Centre"": Writing as Hymenal Rupture in Virginia Woolf's Work; 4 Gunpowder Plots: Sexuality and Censorship in Woolf's Later Works; 5 When the Pervert Meets the Hysteric: Jean Rhys's Black Exercise Book; 6 ""A Doormat in a World of Boots"": Jean Rhys and the Masochistic Aesthetic ; Epilogue: ""The one Dependable Thing in a World of Strife, Ruin, Chaos"": Writing Trauma, Writing SelfNotes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a study of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists. Each confronted the aspects of her culture and personal history that resulted in a degraded sense of female sexuality and explored how traumatic childhood sexual experiences informed their relationship to female corporeality and fiction-writing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and the aesthetics of trauma
• ISBN: 1-281-36135-6; 9786611361358; 0-230-60185-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451200803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II