| Description |
xvi, 325 p. ; 24 cm. |
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Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Contexts and continuities : an introduction to women's experimental fiction in English / Ellen G. Friedman and Miriam Fuchs --Illiterations / Christine Brooke-Rose -- Male signature, female aesthetic : the gender politics of experimental writing / Marianne DeKoven --Dorothy Richardson versus the novvle / Gillian E. Hanscombe --Woolfenstein / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Breaking the master narrative : Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Ellen G. Friedman -- The radical narrative of Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Donna Gerstenberger -- Jane Bowles : Experiment as character / Millicent Dillon -- H.D.'s fiction : Convolutions to clarity / Linda W. Wagner-Martin -- The music of the womb : Anais Nin's "Feminine" writing / Sharon Spencer. |
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"Stepping-stones into the dark" : redundancy and generation in Christine Brooke-Rose's Amalgamemnon / Richard Martin -- Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, my darling : liquescence as form / Miriam Fuchs -- Fiction as language game : the hermeneutic parables of Lydia Davis and Maxine Chernoff / Marjorie Perloff -- The artists of hell : Kathy Acker and "Punk" aesthetics / Larry McCaffery -- Voices in the head : style and consciousness in the fiction of Ann Quin / Philip Stevick -- One hundred and three chapters of little times : collapsed and transfigured moments in the fiction of Barbara Guest / Kathleen Fraser -- The sense of unending : Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur as an experiment in feminine storytelling / Perry Nodelman -- Experimental novels? Yes, but perhaps "otherwise" : Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig / Germaine Bree -- The clandestine fictions of Marguerite Duras / Maria DiBattista. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Experimental fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Friedman, Ellen G., 1944-
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Fuchs, Miriam, 1949-
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| ISBN |
0691015317 (pbk.) |
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0691067554 (alk. paper) : $29.00 |
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