Contemporary women writers look back : from Irony to Nostalgia /

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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