This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, the essays assembled here ...
Author: A. Heilmann
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780230206281
Category: Fiction
Page: 222
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This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, the essays assembled here offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history.
Georges Letissier, 'PassionandPossession asAlternatives to“Cosmic Masculinity” in “Herstorical Romances”',in Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing, ed. by Ann Heilmann and Robert Llewellyn(Basingstoke: Palgrave, ...
Author: K. Cooper
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781137283382
Category: Social Science
Page: 241
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From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. ... Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation. ... Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing.
Author: Alice Ridout
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781441168658
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 208
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Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late 20th-century fiction was 'The Literature of Exhaustion,' authors have been retelling and recycling stories. Barth was, however, right to identify in postmodern fiction a particular self-consciousness about its belatedness at the end of a long literary tradition. This book traces the move in contemporary women's writing from the self-conscious, ironic parodies of postmodernism to the nostalgic and historical turn of the 21st century. It analyses how contemporary women writers deal with their literary inheritances, offering an illuminating and provocative study of contemporary women writers' re-writings of previous texts and stories. Through close readings of novels by key contemporary women writers including Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Emma Tennant and Helen Fielding, and of the ITV adaptation, Lost in Austen, Alice Ridout examines the politics of parody and nostalgia, exploring the limitations and possibilities of both in the contexts of feminism and postcolonialism.
Head, Dominic, The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Heilmann, Ann and Mark Llewellyn (eds), Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing ...
Author: Mary Eagleton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781137294814
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 305
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This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing since 1970.
In Metafiction (1984), Patricia Waugh generally defines metafiction by the following statement: Metafictional ... (6) In the introduction to Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing (2007), Ann Heilmann and Mark ...
Author: Ina Bergmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000295627
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 266
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The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction explores the renaissance of the American historical novel at the turn of the twenty-first century. The study examines the revision of nineteenth-century historical events in cultural products against the background of recent theoretical trends in American studies. It combines insights of literary studies with scholarship on popular culture. The focus of representation is the long nineteenth century – a period from the early republic to World War I – as a key epoch of the nation-building project of the United States. The study explores the constructedness of historical tradition and the cultural resonance of historical events within the discourse on the contemporary novel and the theory formation surrounding it. At the center of the discussion are the unprecedented literary output and critical as well as popular success of historical fiction in the USA since 1995. An additional postcolonial and transatlantic perspective is provided by the incorporation of texts by British and Australian authors and especially by the inclusion of insights from neo-Victorian studies. The book provides a critical comment on current and topical developments in American literature, culture, and historiography.
narrative, marginalized groups (Blacks, women, Latino/as, gbltq, feminists, the working class, and others) were ... In this work the authors, focusing on contemporary women's novels in which “the metafictional and metahistorical ...
Author: Tegan Zimmerman
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783643905604
Category: Social Science
Page: 281
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For the first time in the literary tradition, the contemporary woman's historical novel (post-1970) is surveyed from a transnational feminist perspective. Analyzing the maternal (the genre's central theme) reveals that historical fiction is a transnational feminist means for challenging historical erasures, silences, normative sexuality, political exclusion, and divisions of labor. (Series: Contributions to Transnational Feminism - Vol. 5)
Haliloglu, Nagihan, 'Writing Back Together: The Hidden Memories of Rochester and Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea', in Technologies ... Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Author: L. Plate
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780230294639
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 239
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Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory.
The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (p. 34). New York. ... New Literary History, 7(3), 542. ... In A. Heilmann & M. Llewellyn (Eds.), Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing (pp.
Author: Gina Wisker
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9783030890544
Category: Fiction
Page: 281
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This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier, Helen Dunmore, Michele Roberts, and Zheng Cho. Through the ghostly body, possessions and visitations, women’s ghost stories expose links between the political and personal, genocides and domestic tyrannies, providing unceasing reminders of violence and violations. Women, like ghosts, have historically lurked in the background, incarcerated in domestic spaces and roles by familial and hereditary norms. They have been disenfranchised legally and politically, sold on dreams of romance and domesticity. Like unquiet spirits that cannot be silenced, women’s ghost stories speak the unspeakable, revealing these contradictions and oppressions. Wisker’s book demonstrates that in terms of women’s ghost stories, there is much to point the spectral finger at and much to speak out about.
Author: Silvia Pellicer-OrtinPublish On: 2015-10-13
In her following book, Women Writers Talk: Interviews with 10 Women Writers (1989), Kenyon enlarges the group by ... as continues to be the case in recent works such as Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing ...
Author: Silvia Pellicer-Ortin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781443884808
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 290
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This book provides a general overview of the life and literary career of the prolific writer Eva Figes, placing her extensive production within the various literary movements that have shaped the last century, and drawing on the main features of her works and the different stages in her production. Having recourse to the tools provided by narratology and using the theoretical background of the disciplines of ethics, Holocaust and trauma studies, together with other related fields such as theories of artistic representation, identity questions concerning Jewishness, contemporary history and philosophy, it carries out a comprehensive analysis of Figes’s main works. The main starting hypothesis explored throughout the book is that an evolution may be traced in the aesthetics employed by Figes throughout her career – from her initial Modernist phase to her more realist position – to depict individual and collective traumas. This development is a result of her need to find a mode of representing various traumatic events that have given shape to her personal and family history and to our recent collective history, from the two World Wars and the Holocaust to the social exclusion suffered by minority groups like women or the Jewish immigrant communities. This evolution will be also approached thematically, as there is a development from her early interest in depicting isolated male traumatised characters to the traumas suffered by women under patriarchal structures, and, then, to the encounter with her own suffering as a Holocaust survivor. The author’s evolution in the topics and narrative techniques employed mirrors the different stages in the individual and collective processes of recovery from traumatic experiences, from the process of acting out to the eventual healing phase. Thus, the conclusions detailed here will be useful not only to make Figes’ work known to a wider audience, but also to gain an insight into the evolution of the literary tendencies of the last few decades in trying to represent some of the most horrible events of the modern age.
In Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing, edited by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn, 195–210. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Lukács, Georg. The Historical Novel. [1937].
Author: Samantha J. Rayner
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 9781787357600
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 320
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The Nonesuch is the name of one of Georgette Heyer’s most famous novels. It means a person or thing without equal, and Georgette Heyer is certainly that. Her historical works inspire a fiercely loyal, international readership and are championed by literary figures such as A. S. Byatt and Stephen Fry. Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction brings together an eclectic range of chapters from scholars all over the world to explore the contexts of Heyer’s career. Divided into four parts – gender; genre; sources; and circulation and reception – the volume draws on scholarship on Heyer and her contemporaries to show how her work sits in a chain of influence, and why it remains pertinent to current conversations on books and publishing in the twenty-first century. Heyer’s impact on science fiction is accounted for, as are the milieu she was writing in, the many subsequent works that owe Heyer’s writing a debt, and new methods for analysing these enduring books. From the gothic to data science, there is something for everyone in this volume; a celebration of Heyer’s ‘nonesuch’ status amongst historical novelists, proving that she and her contemporary women writers deserve to be read (and studied) as more than just guilty pleasures.