Women, genre and circumstance : essays in memory of Elizabeth Fallaize / edited by Margaret Atack ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atack, Margaret.

Fallaize, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Feminism and literature--History--19th century.

Feminism and literature.

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

History.

Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Women in literature.

Fallaize, Elizabeth.

Literature--Women authors.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

154 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Legenda/Modern Humanities Research and Maney Publishing, 2012.

Summary:

Women, Genre and Circumstance brings together a series of challenging essays which explore the complex intersections of feminism, narrative and genre. Drawing oh a wide range of 19th and 20th century texts - novels, short stories and films-they interrogate the relationship between women's situation and writing practice, and representations of history, memory, love, old age; they pursue questions of history, memory, love, old age; they pursue questions of narrative form and its meanings, particularly the distinctive features of the short story. The politics of feminist criticism and careful attention to the operations of narrative combine in a sustained exploration of the aesthetics and ethics of fictional practices, and their role in the negotiation of gender and circumstance. The essays were written as tributes to the leading feminist scholar Elizabeth Fallaize. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Women, genre and circumstance

Elizabeth Fallaize: French scholar / Margaret Atack

pt. 1: Simone de Beauvoir. 'To make them other, and face them': literature, philosophy and 'La femme rompue' / Toril Moi ; 1947 and the discovery of international life / Michèle le Doeuff ; Beauvoir and love / Suzanne Dow ; Simone de Beauvoir and the uses of memory / Ursula Tidd

pt. 2: The short story. Balzac's Honorine, or, The rape of the independent woman / Diana Knight ; Being human: Georges Simenon's 'L'homme dans la rue' / Colin Davis ; The 'stab' of short-story endings / Alison Finch

pt. 3: Women and circumstance. Renée Vivien's 'La dame à la louve' and the freedom to choose / Judith Still ; New representations and politics of procreation in contemporary women's writing in France / Gill Rye ; Dealing with what is dealt: feminists and ageing / Diana Holmes

Coda. Women's time: Simone de Beauvoir and the independent woman / Elizabeth Fallaize

Main publications by Elizabeth Fallaize.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781907975301

1907975306

OCLC:

775030518