Feminine fictions : revisiting the postmodern / Patricia Waugh.
'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 a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Series: | Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ;
v. 14 |
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| Summary: | '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.</P. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203120439 0203120434 9781136321252 113632125X 9781136321245 1136321241 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |