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Visions of Doom, Plots of Power: The Fantastic in Anglo-American Women's Literature / Anne Koenen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Leipziger Schriften ; 10Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783893542703
  • 9783964567819
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Fantastic As Feminine Mode - Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- 2. Theories of the Fantastic -- 3. A History of Fantasy in White Women's Literature -- 4. The Fantastic in the Literatures of Women of Color -- 5. Ambiguous Dreams - Utopia as a State of Mind -- 6. The Past as Nightmare - Dystopia as a State of Body -- 7. Sea-Changes - Metamorphoses as Plots of Power -- 8. Alien(N)ations - Home, Displacement, and Aliens -- 9. Conclusion -- 10. Bibliography
Summary: This study investigates the fantastic as a literary mode in the work of 20th century Anglo-American women writers such as Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Octavia Butler.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783964567819

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Fantastic As Feminine Mode - Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- 2. Theories of the Fantastic -- 3. A History of Fantasy in White Women's Literature -- 4. The Fantastic in the Literatures of Women of Color -- 5. Ambiguous Dreams - Utopia as a State of Mind -- 6. The Past as Nightmare - Dystopia as a State of Body -- 7. Sea-Changes - Metamorphoses as Plots of Power -- 8. Alien(N)ations - Home, Displacement, and Aliens -- 9. Conclusion -- 10. Bibliography

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This study investigates the fantastic as a literary mode in the work of 20th century Anglo-American women writers such as Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Octavia Butler.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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