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1 online resource (176 pages) |
| Contents |
The Lyrical Body in Virginia Woolf's Fiction -- Djuna Barnes and the Politics of the Night -- Marguerite Duras and the Subversion of Power -- Afterword |
| Summary |
This insightful volume extends feminist critical studies of twentieth-century women writers as it examines the complex ways female subjectivity experiences and is shaped by gender and power in literary texts. Because of the ways ambivalence and contradiction operate in the works of Woolf, Barnes, and Duras, to read them is to able to interrogate and thus more fully understand the ways our own subjectivity are constructed in relation to complex configurations of desire, loss, sexuality, power, vulnerability, and violence. Kaivola has worked out a strikingly original means of reading difference- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Barnes, Djuna -- Criticism and interpretation
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Duras, Marguerite -- Criticism and interpretation
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Barnes, Djuna fast |
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Duras, Marguerite fast |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast |
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Woolf, Virginia. swd |
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Barnes, Djuna. swd |
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Duras, Marguerite. swd |
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Fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Women and literature -- History -- 20th century
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Fiction
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Fiction -- Women authors
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Women and literature
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Subjektivität
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Frau
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1587291223 |
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9781587291227 |
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