All Contraries Confounded : The Lyrical Fiction / Karen Kaivola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaivola, Karen, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Fiction.

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

Women and literature.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, [1991]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This insightful volume extends feminist critical studies of twentieth-century women writers as it examines the complex ways female subjectivity experiences and is shaped by gender and power in literary texts. Because of the ways ambivalence and contradiction operate in the works of Woolf, Barnes, and Duras, to read them is to able to interrogate and thus more fully understand the ways our own subjectivity are constructed in relation to complex configurations of desire, loss, sexuality, power, vulnerability, and violence. Kaivola has worked out a strikingly original means of reading difference-

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Lyrical Body in Virginia Woolf's Fiction; 3. Djuna Barnes and the Politics of the Night; 4. Marguerite Duras and the Subversion of Power; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781587291227

1587291223

OCLC:

44963094