Waiting for the end : gender and ending in the contemporary novel / Earl G. Ingersoll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingersoll, Earl G., 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Closure (Rhetoric).

Sex role in literature.

Feminism and literature--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

History.

Physical Description:

286 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2007]

Contents:

Cluster 1 Tales of the Masculine Narrative Paradigm 21

City of Endings: Ian McEwan's Amsterdam 30

The Lure of the Detective Story: Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans 39

Writing Like a Boy: Stephen Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse 47

Writing "Like a Man" : Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin 54

The Metaphoricity of Ending: Colum McCann's This Side of Brightness 63

Ending in a Pickle: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children 74

A Proliferation of Endings: Graham Swift's Waterland 79

The Joke's on Freud: D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel 91

Cluster 2 Undoing the Paradigm-Perhaps 107

The Shell Game of Ending(s): John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman 112

"Double" Ending by Misunderstanding: Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange 123

Is There an Ending in This Text? David Lodge's Changing Places 128

The Faked Climax and the Anticlimax in Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur 135

Will the Real Author Please Stand Up? Ian McEwan's Atonement 148

Another Question of Ending: L. P. Hartley's The Go-Between 162

An Ending Opening to the Future: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale 170

Ending Elsewhere: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea 178

Cluster 3 Escaping the Paradigm by Ignoring It 190

The Great Circle: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook 194

Recurrent Circles: Nawal El Saadawi's The Fall of the Imam 209

Is There a Novel in This Text? Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters 216

Can Two Novellas Make a Novel? A. S. Byatt's Angels & Insects 228

Beginning Again-and Again: Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler 235

Troubling Linearity: Manlio Argueta's Cuzcatlán 241

The Ending Is in the Beginning: Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-281) and index.

ISBN:

9780838641538

0838641539

OCLC:

76800655