M. Eagleton
Palgrave-Macmillan
Hardback
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38687
If the author is 'dead', if feminism is 'post-', why does the figure of the woman author keep appearing as a central character in contemporary fiction? She is concerned with ownership but, equally, with loss, determined to enter the cultural field but also rejecting that field, looking for control but subject to duplicity, seeking power alongside desire. Drawing on a diverse range of contemporary authors - including Atwood, Byatt, Brookner, Coetzee, Lurie, LeGuin, Mich?le Roberts, Shields, Spark, Weldon, Walker - this study explores the complexity and continuing fascination of this figure.
Palgrave-Macmillan
Hardback
208
38687
If the author is 'dead', if feminism is 'post-', why does the figure of the woman author keep appearing as a central character in contemporary fiction? She is concerned with ownership but, equally, with loss, determined to enter the cultural field but also rejecting that field, looking for control but subject to duplicity, seeking power alongside desire. Drawing on a diverse range of contemporary authors - including Atwood, Byatt, Brookner, Coetzee, Lurie, LeGuin, Mich?le Roberts, Shields, Spark, Weldon, Walker - this study explores the complexity and continuing fascination of this figure.