Breaking the Sequence : : Women's Experimental Fiction / / ed. by Miriam Fuchs, Ellen G. Friedman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Blau Duplessis, Rachel,; Brooke-Rose, Christine,; Brée, Germaine,; Dekoven, Marianne,; Dibattista, Maria,; Dillon, Millicent,; Fraser, Kathleen,; Friedman, Ellen G.,; Fuchs, Miriam,; Gerstenberger, Donna,; Hanscombe, Gillian E.,; Martin, Richard,; McCaffery, Larry,; Nodelman, Perry,; Perloff, Marjorie,; Spencer, Sharon,; Stevick, Philip,; Wagner-Martin, Linda W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Friedman, Ellen G.,; Fuchs, Miriam,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 960
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

These nineteen essays introduce the rich and until now largely unexplored tradition of women's experimental fiction in the twentieth century. The writers discussed here range from Gertrude Stein to Christine Brooke-Rose and include, among others, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Jane Bowles, Marguerite Young, Eva Figes, Joyce Carol Oates, and Marguerite Duras. "Friedman and Fuchs demonstrate the breadth of their research, first in their introduction to the volume, in which they outline the history of the reception of women's experimental fiction, and analyze and categorize the work not only of the writers to whom essays are devoted but of a number of others, too; and second in an extensive and wonderfully useful bibliography."--Emma Kafalenos, The International Fiction Review "After an introduction that is practically itself a monograph, eighteen essayists (too many of them distinguished to allow an equitable sampling) take up three generations of post-modernists."--American Literature "The editors see this volume as part of the continuing feminist project of the `recovery and foregrounding of women writers.' Friedman and Fuchs's substantive introduction excellently synthesizes the issues presented in the rest of the volume."--Patrick D. Murphy, Studies in the HumanitiesOriginally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Contexts and Continuities: An Introduction to Women's Experimental Fiction in English -- PERSPECTIVES -- Illiterations -- Male Signature, Female Aesthetic: The Gender Politics of Experimental Writing -- FIRST GENERATION: BEFORE 1930 -- Dorothy Richardson Versus the Novvle -- Woolfenstein -- Second generation: 1930 - 1960 -- Breaking the Master Narrative: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- The Radical Narrative of Djuna Barnes's Nigbtwood -- Jane Bowles: Experiment as Character -- H.D.'s Fiction: Convolutions to Clarity -- The Music of the Womb: Anaïs Nin's "Feminine" Writing -- THIRD GENERATION: AFTER 1960 -- "Stepping-Stones Into the Dark": Redundancy and Generation in Christine Brooke-Rose's Amalgamemnon -- Marguerite Young's Miss Macintosh, My Darling: Liquescence as Form -- Fiction as Language Game: The Hermeneutic Parables of Lydia Davis and Maxine Chernoff -- The Artists of Hell: Kathy Acker and "Punk" Aesthetics -- Voices in the Head: Style and Consciousness in the Fiction of Ann Quin -- One Hundred and Three Chapters of Little Times: Collapsed and Transfigured Moments in the Fiction of Barbara Guest -- The Sense of Unending: Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur as an Experiment in Feminine Storytelling -- LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION -- Experimental Novels? Yes, But Perhaps "Otherwise": Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig -- The Clandestine Fictions of Marguerite Duras -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- SELECTED LIST OF WOMEN EXPERIMENTALISTS -- INDEX