Feminine fictions : revisiting the postmodern
著者
書誌事項
Feminine fictions : revisiting the postmodern
（Routledge library editions, . Women,
Routledge, 2012, c1989
- : hardback
大学図書館所蔵 全5件
注記
Set ISBN for sub ser. "Women, feminism and literature": 9780415526425
Reprint. Originally published: 1989
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-239) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
'Postmodernism' and 'feminism' have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? 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. She attempts to uncover the reasons why women writers have been excluded from the considerations of postmodern art.
Her route takes her through the theorization of self offered by Freud and Lacan and on to the concept of subjectivity articulated by Kleinian and later object-relations psychoanalysts. She argues that much women's writing has been inappropriately placed and interpreted within a predominantly formalist-orientated aesthetic and a post-Freudian/liberal, individualist conceptualization of subjectivity and artistic expression. This tendency has been intensified in discussions of postmodernism, and a new feminist aesthetic is thus badly needed.
In the second part of the book Patricia Waugh analyses the work of six 'traditional' and six 'experimental' writers, challenging the restrictive definitions of 'realist', 'modernist', 'postmodernist' in the light of the theoretical position developed in part one. Authors covered include: Woolf (viewed as a postmodernist 'precursor' rather than a 'high' modernist), Drabble, Tyler, Plath, Brookner, Paley, Lessing, Weldon, Atwood, Walker, Spark, Russ, and Piercy.
目次
- 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
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