Breaking the sequence : women's experimental fiction / introduced and edited by Ellen G. Friedman and Miriam Fuchs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedman, Ellen G., 1944- editor.

Fuchs, Miriam, 1949- editor.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Legacy Library ; 960

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Experimental fiction, English--History and criticism.

Experimental fiction, English.

Women and literature--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

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

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1989]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

These nineteen essays introduce the rich and until now largely unexplored tradition of women's experimental fiction in the twentieth century. The writers discussed here range from Gertrude Stein to Christine Brooke-Rose and include, among others, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Jane Bowles, Marguerite Young, Eva Figes, Joyce Carol Oates, and Marguerite Duras. "Friedman and Fuchs demonstrate the breadth of their research, first in their introduction to the volume, in which they outline the history of the reception of women's experimental fiction, and analyze and categorize the work not only of the writers to whom essays are devoted but of a number of others, too; and second in an extensive and wonderfully useful bibliography."--Emma Kafalenos, The International Fiction Review "After an introduction that is practically itself a monograph, eighteen essayists (too many of them distinguished to allow an equitable sampling) take up three generations of post-modernists."--American Literature "The editors see this volume as part of the continuing feminist project of the `recovery and foregrounding of women writers.' Friedman and Fuchs's substantive introduction excellently synthesizes the issues presented in the rest of the volume."--Patrick D. Murphy, Studies in the HumanitiesOriginally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Contexts and Continuities: An Introduction to Women's Experimental Fiction in English / Friedman, Ellen G. / Fuchs, Miriam

PERSPECTIVES

Illiterations / Brooke-Rose, Christine

Male Signature, Female Aesthetic: The Gender Politics of Experimental Writing / Dekoven, Marianne

FIRST GENERATION: BEFORE 1930

Dorothy Richardson Versus the Novvle / Hanscombe, Gillian E.

Woolfenstein / Blau Duplessis, Rachel

Second generation: 1930 - 1960

Breaking the Master Narrative: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Friedman, Ellen G.

The Radical Narrative of Djuna Barnes's Nigbtwood / Gerstenberger, Donna

Jane Bowles: Experiment as Character / Dillon, Millicent

H.D.'s Fiction: Convolutions to Clarity / Wagner-Martin, Linda W.

The Music of the Womb: Anaïs Nin's "Feminine" Writing / Spencer, Sharon

THIRD GENERATION: AFTER 1960

"Stepping-Stones Into the Dark": Redundancy and Generation in Christine Brooke-Rose's Amalgamemnon / Martin, Richard

Marguerite Young's Miss Macintosh, My Darling: Liquescence as Form / Fuchs, Miriam

Fiction as Language Game: The Hermeneutic Parables of Lydia Davis and Maxine Chernoff / Perloff, Marjorie

The Artists of Hell: Kathy Acker and "Punk" Aesthetics / McCaffery, Larry

Voices in the Head: Style and Consciousness in the Fiction of Ann Quin / Stevick, Philip

One Hundred and Three Chapters of Little Times: Collapsed and Transfigured Moments in the Fiction of Barbara Guest / Fraser, Kathleen

The Sense of Unending: Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur as an Experiment in Feminine Storytelling / Nodelman, Perry

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

Experimental Novels? Yes, But Perhaps "Otherwise": Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig / Brée, Germaine

The Clandestine Fictions of Marguerite Duras / Dibattista, Maria

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

SELECTED LIST OF WOMEN EXPERIMENTALISTS

INDEX

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781400859948

1400859948

OCLC:

1013956290