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Fiction, crime, and the feminine [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Redouane Abouddahab and Josiane Paccaud-Huguet



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Titolo: Fiction, crime, and the feminine [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Redouane Abouddahab and Josiane Paccaud-Huguet Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
Disciplina: 809.3872
Soggetto topico: Women and literature
Female offenders in literature
Crime in literature
Femininity in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: AbouddahabRedouane  
Paccaud-HuguetJosiane  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CRIMELESS FEMININITY; THE LAW OF GENDER; LADY AUDLEY AND LYDIA GWILT; RE-WRITING A WOMAN'S CRIME; TESS THE MURDERESS, EUSTACIA THE ADDER; "THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE"; FROM THE MURDERER'S SOLILOQUY TO THE POISONER'S MONOLOGUE; FROM CONFIDENT TO MURDERER; RED BEADS AND FUNERAL HOMES; ANTIGONE LOST IN "THE FURY OF THE AGE OF BAR-ROOMS"; THE OBSCENE TRAGEDY OF THE DEATH DRIVE IN I HARDLY KNEW YOU, BY EDNA O'BRIEN; THE MILKY WAKE:SACRIFICE AS JOUISSANCE IN TONI MORRISON'S WORK; CONTRIBUTORS
Sommario/riassunto: The form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Other's desire and the strange libido attached to violence: in other words, there is an ambivalent dimension inherent in the scenarios and fantasies we enjoy by proxy. Are not the fairy tales of our childhood full of images of death and violence, whose fascinating presence is paradoxically meant to make us feel all the more safely tucked up in bed? After ...
Titolo autorizzato: Fiction, crime, and the feminine  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-14270-8
9786613142702
1-4438-2828-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910464093703321
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