The Feminization of Quest-Romance : : Radical Departures / / Dana A. Heller.
What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends deemed...
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Heller, Dana A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Feminization of Quest-Romance : Radical Departures / Dana A. Heller. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©1990 1 online resource (151 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Feminization of Quest-Romance -- 2. Remaking Psyche -- 3. Remembering Molly: Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion -- 4. "A Kind of Quest": Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood -- 5. "The Spark from the Outside World": Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi -- 6. "Happily at Ease in the Dark": Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping -- 7. Shifting Gears: Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here -- 8. Conclusion: Radical Departures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends deemed universal, timeless, and essential to our understanding of the natural order that holds us and completes us in its spiral. Yet these myths and rituals do not fulfill her need for an empowering self-image nor do they grant her the mobility she requires to imagine, enact, and represent her quest for authentic self-knowledge. The Feminization of Quest-Romance proposes that a female quest is a revolutionary step in both literary and cultural terms. Indeed, despite the difficulty that women writers face in challenging myths, rituals, psychological theories, and literary conventions deemed universal by a culture that exalts masculine ideals and universalizes male experience, a number of revolutionary texts have come into existence in the second half of the twentieth century by such American women writers as Jean Stafford, Mary McCarthy, Anne Moody, Marilynne Robinson, and Mona Simpson, all of them working to redefine the literary portrayal of American women's quests. They work, in part, by presenting questing female characters who refuse to accept the roles accorded them by restrictive social norms, even if it means sacrificing themselves in the name of rebellion. In later texts, female heroes survive their "lighting out" experiences to explore diverse alternatives to the limiting roles that have circumscribed female development. This study of The Mountain Lion, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Housekeeping, and Anywhere but Here identifies transformations of the quest-romance that support a viable theory of female development and offer literary patterns that challenge the male monopoly on transformative knowledge and heroic action. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) American fiction Women authors History and criticism. American fiction 20th century History and criticism. Feminism and literature United States History 20th century. Feminist fiction, American -. Feminist fiction, American History and criticism. Heroines in literature. Quests (Expeditions) in literature. Romances Adaptations. Women and literature United States History 20th century. Women in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110745351 https://doi.org/10.7560/770485 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292762619 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292762619/original |
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