Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]- 219) and index.
Contents
"I must live within stories" : narrative of the self -- "As fluid as mercury" : psychoanalysis, feminism, and questions of identity -- Sphinxes and Scheherezades : the actress and the Femme fatale -- "Revolution in writing" : gender, modernism, and the aesthetics of the ideal language -- "I am the other face of you" : fantasies and femininity.