Contemporary women's fiction and the fantastic / Lucie Armitt

• Autore: Armitt, Lucie, 1962-
• Pubblicazione: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: x, 257 p. ; 23 cm.
• Disciplina: 809.3/876/082
• Soggetto topico: Letteratura fantastica - Autrici; Donne nella letteratura - Storia; Narrativa - Storia e critica; Scrittrici - Storia e critica; Fantasy fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; Fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; Fiction - History and criticism; Women and literature - History; Fantastic, The, in literature
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-252) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN: 033369452X (Macmillan); 0333694538 (Macmillan pbk.); 0312226667 (St. Martin's)
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 991000700829707536
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento