Elizabeth Bowen : : A Reputation in Writing / / Renee Carine Hoogland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Hoogland, Renee Carine,
• MitwirkendeR: Jay, Karla,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1994]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: The Cutting Edge ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific outputten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial body of non- fictionBowen is a noteworthy novelist. The radical quality of her work, however, renders her an exceptional one. Surfacing in both subject matter and style, her fictions harbor a subversive potential which has hitherto gone unnoticed. Using a wide range of critical theories-from semiotics to psychoanalysis, from narratology to deconstruction-this book presents a radical re-reading of a selection of Bowen's novels from a lesbian feminist perspective. Taking into account both cultural contexts and the author's non-fictional writings, the book's main focus is on configurations of gender and sexuality. Bowen's fiction constitutes an exploration of the unstable and destabilizing effects of sexuality in the interdependent processes of subjectivity and what she herself referred to as so-called reality.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Elizabeth Bowen- A Story of Sorts -- 2. Technologies of Female Adolescence -- 3. Authoring Sexual Identities -- 4. Histories of Narrative Desire -- 5. The Discourse of Suspension -- 6. Subtexts of Psychosexuality -- 7. Sexual/Textual Transgressions -- 8. From Marginality to Ex-centricity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index