Women Genre and Circumstance: Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize

ISBN-13: 9781907975301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 164 str.

Margaret Atack; Diane L. Holmes; Diana Knight

Opis

"Women, Genre and Circumstance" brings together a series of challenging essays which explore the complex intersections of feminism, narrative and genre. Drawing on a wide range of 19th and 20th century texts novels, short stories and films they interrogate the relationship between womens situation and writing practice, and representations of history, memory, love, old age; they pursue questions of narrative form and its meanings, particularly the distinctive features of the short story. The politics of feminist criticism and careful attention to the operations of narrative combine in a sustained exploration of the aesthetics and ethics of fictional practices, and their role in the negotiation of gender and circumstance. The essays were written as tributes to the leading feminist scholar Elizabeth Fallaize.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Elizabeth Fallaize: French Scholar Simone de Beauvoir 2. To make them other, and face them': Literature, Philosophy and 'La Femme rompue' 3. 1947 and the Discovery of International Life 4. Beauvoir and Love 5. Simone de Beauvoir and the Uses of Memory The Short Story 6. Balzac's Honorine, or, The Rape of the Independent Woman 7. Being Human: Georges Simenon's 'L'Homme dans la rue' 8. The 'Stab' of Short-Story Endings Women and Circumstance 9. Renée Vivien's 'La Dame à la louve' and the Freedom to Choose 10. New Representations and Politics of Procreation: Surrogate Motherhood, Artificial Insemination and Human Cloning in Contemporary Women's Writing in France 11. Dealing with What is Dealt: Feminists and Ageing Coda 12. Women's Time: Simone de Beauvoir and the Independent Woman

O autorze

Diana Holmes