'Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art

ISBN-13: 9780333617328 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 220 str.

Kathleen M. Wheeler

Opis

This book is an examination of the fiction of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Stevie Smith, Katherine Mansfield and Jane Bowles, with a view to clarifying the narrative strategies these women adopt to establish, in varying degrees, a critique of realism and its hidden dualistic, patriarchal assumptions about life, literature, and society. While examining the literary conventions and the innovations of various texts, Kathleen Wheeler is careful to respect the particularity and individuality of each of these writers.

Spis treści

Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: The Dragon of St Cyril - Excavating Meaning in Willa Cather's Novels - Kate Chopin: Ironist of Realism - The Attack on Realism: Edith Wharton's In Morocco and 'Roman Fever' - Style as Characterization in Jean Rhys' Novels - Dramatic Art in Katherine Mansfield's 'Bliss' - The Multiple Realities of Stevie Smith - Jane Bowles: That Modern Legend - Conclusion: The 'Voice of Silence' Speaks - Notes - Bibliography - Index

O autorze

KATHLEEN WHEELER