Contemporary women writers look back : from Irony to Nostalgia /

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Author / Creator:	Ridout, Alice.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (189 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Continuum Literary Studies Continuum literary studies.
Subject:	Authorship. Women authors. Women and literature. Authorship. Women and literature. Women authors.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11246504

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ISBN:	9781441168658 1441168656 9781472542373 1472542371 9781441130235 1441130233 9781441114976 1441114971 9781441147448 1441147446
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late twentieth-century fiction was "The Literature of Exhaustion," authors have been retelling and recycling stories. Barth was, however, right to identify in postmodern fiction a particular self-consciousness about its belatedness at the end of a long literary tradition. This book traces the move in contemporary women's writing from the self-conscious, ironic parodies of postmodernism to the nostalgic and historical turn of the twenty-first century. It analyses how contemporary women writers deal with their literary inheritances
Other form:	Print version: Contemporary Women Writers Look Back. Continuum Intl Pub Group 2011 9781441147448

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