A dialogue of voices : feminist literary theory and Bakhtin / Karen Hohne and Helen Wussow, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hohne, Karen Ann.

Wussow, Helen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist literary criticism.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Bakhtin, M. M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on feminist theorists such as Hélène Cixous, Teresa de Lauretis, Julia Kristeva, and Monique Wittig in conjunction with Bakhtin's concepts of dialogism, heteroglossia, and chronotope, the authors offer close readings of texts from a wide range of multicultural genres, including nature writing, sermon composition, nineteenth-century British women's fiction, the contemporary romance novel, Irish and French lyric poetry, and Latin American film.

Contents:

The Ideological Intervention of Ambiguities in the Marriage Plot: Who Fails Marianne in Austen's Sense and Sensibility? The Chronotope of the Asylum: Jane Eyre, Feminism, and Bakhtinian Theory; On veult responce avoir: Pernette du Guillet's Dialogic Poetics; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8528-2

OCLC:

476093481