Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative

ISBN-13: 9780367681128 / Miękka / 2023 / 112 str.

Opis

This book argues for the importance of narrative theories which consider gender and sexuality through the analysis of a diverse range of texts and media.

Spis treści

Introduction: Futures for feminist and queer narratology

Tory Young

1. Queering narrative voice

Susan S. Lanser

2. Rethinking the subject in feminist research: narrative personae and stories of ‘the real’

Maria Tamboukou

3. ‘We fuck and friends don’t fuck’: BFFs, lesbian desire, and queer narratives

Sam McBean

4. A moving target – cognitive narratology and feminism

Karin Kukkonen

5. Invisibility and power in the digital age: issues for feminist and queer narratology

Tory Young

6. The unspeakable, the unnarratable, and the repudiation of epiphany in ‘Recitatif’: a collaboration between linguistic and literary feminist narratologies

Robyn Warhol and Amy Shuman

O autorze

Tory Young teaches Contemporary and Modernist Literature at ARU, Cambridge, UK. She is currently writing a monograph about 21^st-Century Love Stories, which reconsiders plot and desire in popular and literary fiction. She is the author of a practical guide for students Studying English Literature (CUP).