Breaking the Sequence : : Women's Experimental Fiction /

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

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, Margueri...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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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

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