Female Stories, Female Bodies: Narrative, Identity and Representation

ISBN-13: 9780333471654 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str.

Lidia Curti

Opis

This interdisciplinary book explores women's narratives in a wide variety of media and genre, from soap opera and film to the post-modern novel and Shakespearian drama. Adopting an innovative feminist perspective, it focuses particularly on the themes of hybridity and monstrosity in language and the body. In doing so, it raises issues to do with closure and temporal and spatial dislocation, drawing on themes of passion, paranoia and desire.

Spis treści

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: The Swing of Theory D for Difference: Gender, Genre, Writing.- The Lure of the Image: Fe/male Serial Narratives Hybrid Fictions and Monstrous Bodies in Contemporary Women's Writing.- Alterity and the Female Traveller: Jane Bowles The Empty Place of Melancholia: Female Characters in Hamlet.- Bibliography.- Index.