Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern

ISBN-13: 9780415752398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Patricia Waugh

Opis

Patricia Waugh addresses the relationship between feminist and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of psychoanalysis and in the context of the development of modern fiction in Britain and America.

Spis treści

1. Postmodernism and Feminism: Where Have All the Women Gone?  2. Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Fiction: Alternative ‘Selves’  3. From Modernist Textuality to Feminist Sexuality; or Why I’m No Longer A-Freud of Virginia Woolf  4. Post-war Women Writers: Challenging the ‘Liberal Tradition’  5. Contemporary Women Writers: Challenging Postmodernist Aesthetics

O autorze

Patricia Waugh is Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK.