Beyond bodies : : gender, literature and the enigma of consciousness / / Daphne M. Grace ; Aart Jan Bergshoeff, cover design.
“Articulations and expressions of gender can be destabilising, transgressive, revolutionary and radical, encompassing both a painful legacy of oppression and a joyous exploration of new experience.” Analysing key texts from the 19th to 21st centuries, this book explores a range of British and Anglop...
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| Superior document: | Consciousness, Literature & the Arts, 38 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Consciousness, literature & the arts ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Notes: | Angela Carter's feminist rewriting of fairy tales. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Cognition, consciousness and literary contexts
- Forging roads into consciousness: rasa and the influence of emotion in Wuthering Heights
- Isolating consciousness: secrets, silencing and insanity in Victorian novels
- Beyond the veils of consciousness: individual and collective awareness in the novels of George Eliot
- Shifts into quantum consciousness: Virginia Woolf’s moments of being
- Consciousness and freedom: women’s space in the twentieth-century Bildungsroman
- Beyond gender myths: Angela Carter’s feminist fables
- Transforming gender: passion, desire and consciousness
- Quests and questions of consciousness: Margaret Atwood’s post-human futures
- Consciousness and conscience: the ethics of enlightenment
- Bibliography
- Index.