Seductions in Narrative: Subjectivity and Desire in the Works of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson
- ISBN-10
- 1934043850
- ISBN-13
- 9781934043851
- Category
- Desire in literature
- Pages
- 297
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cambria Press
- Author
- Gemma López
Description
Seductions in Narrative is a highly original, academic study which provides a critical discourse in which desire, narrative, and subjectivity are explored. Through the critical reading of two novels by contemporary English authors, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson, the book cleverly assesses the ways in which desire allows the subject to imagine an alternative, utopian location where a narrative of the self, in all its multiplicity and ambiguity, can be effected. This book is unique as general studies on these issues tend to focus on the literature produced over the nineteenth century, but not on contemporary literature. The pieces which examine desire and narrative in contemporary novels tend to do so in the work of post-colonial authors. Specific works on the production of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson also tend to focus on a somewhat close reading of their novels, but do not make use of their fiction in order to debate specific, poststructuralist issues, as this book successfully undertakes.
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