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Ambiguous Discourse: Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers
Contributor(s): Mezei, Kathy (Editor)

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 ISBN: 080784599X     ISBN-13: 9780807845998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1996
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Annotation: Ambiguous Discourse explores the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection of twelve essays is the first book devoted to feminist narratology - the combination of feminist theory with the study of the strictures that underpin all narratives.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Gender Studies
Dewey: 823.009
LCCN: 95026584
Lexile Measure: 1480(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.17" W x 9.27" L (1.00 lbs) 296 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection of twelve essays is the first book devoted to feminist narratology--the combination of feminist theory with the study of the structures that underpin all narratives. Until recently, narratology has resisted the advances of feminism in part, as some contributors argue, because theory has replicated past assumptions of male authority and point of view in narrative. Feminist narratology, however, contextualizes the cultural constructions of gender within its study of narrative strategies. Nine of these essays are original, and three have been revised for publication in this volume. The contributors are Melba Cuddy-Keane, Denise Delorey, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan Stanford Friedman, Janet Giltrow, Linda Hutcheon, Susan S. Lanser, Alison Lee, Patricia Matson, Kathy Mezei, Christine Roulston, and Robyn Warhol.


Contributor Bio(s): Mezei, Kathy: - Kathy Mezei is chair and professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. She is a founding editor of Tessera, a feminist literary journal, and author of the Bibliography of Criticism on English and French Literary Translations in Canada.
 
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