Love in Jeanette Winterson's novels / / Julie Ellam.

• Superior document: Costerus ; new series, 181
• Author: Ellam, Julie.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Costerus New Series 181.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This volume is of interest for lovers and students of Jeanette Winterson’s writing and introduces for the first time a book-length examination of the love stories she has created. Each main novel, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit to The Stone Gods , is analysed in detail and theorists ranging from Derrida, to Freud, to Kristeva are invoked to help discuss the paradox that is written into the passion in these works. Love, it is argued here, is central to her writing and this book also unfolds the influences and aspirations that have shaped her style.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE TIES THAT BIND: ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT -- LOVE, TESTING THE LIMITS OF FREEDOM IN THE PASSION -- WRITING STRATEGIES: LOVE, POLITICS AND ART IN SEXING THE CHERRY -- UNDYING LOVE: WRITTEN ON THE BODY -- THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE: ART AND LIES -- CHEATING HEARTS: GUT SYMMETRIES -- OLD AND NEW LOVE STORIES: THE. POWERBOOK -- DIVIDED SELVES IN LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING AND THE STONE GODS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.