Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late twentieth-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 belated...

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1. Verfasser:	Ridout, Alice
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010.
Schriftenreihe:	Continuum literary studies.
Schlagworte:	Authorship. Women authors. Women and literature. Art d'écrire. Écrivaines. Femmes et littérature. authorship. authors. LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors. Authorship Women and literature Women authors
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Zusammenfassung:	Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late twentieth-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 twenty-first century. It analyses how contemporary women writers deal with their literary inheritances
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (189 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index.
ISBN:	9781441168658 1441168656 9781472542373 1472542371 9781441130235 1441130233 9781441114976 1441114971