Women Genre and Circumstance Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize

Name: Women Genre and Circumstance Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize
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ISBN: 9781907975301

ISBN-10: 1907975306

ISBN-13: 9781907975301

Edition: 2012

Authors: Diana Holmes, Diana Holmes, Diana Knight, Judith Still

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Women, Genre and Circumstance brings together a series of challenging essays which explore the complex intersections of feminism, narrative and genre. Drawing on a wide range of 19th and 20th century texts novels, short stories and films they interrogate the relationship between womens situation and writing practice, and representations of history, memory, love, old age; they pursue questions of narrative form and its meanings, particularly the distinctive features of the short story. The politics of feminist criticism and careful attention to the operations of narrative combine in a sustained exploration of the aesthetics and ethics of fictional practices, and their role in the negotiation…

Book details

List price: $75.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 5/31/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 164
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Diana Holmes, University of Keele



Introduction: Women, Genre and Circumstance



Elizabeth Fallaize: French Scholar




Simone De Beauvoir



'To make them other, and face them': Literature, Philosophy and 'La Femme rompue'




1947 and the Discovery of International Life




Beauvoir and Love




Simone de Beauvoir and the Uses of Memory




The Short Story



Balzac's Honorine, or, The Rape of the Independent Woman




Being Human: Georges Simenon's 'L'Homme dans la rue'




The 'Stab' of Short-Story Endings




Women and Circumstance



Renï¿½e Vivien's 'La Dame ï¿½ la louve' and the Freedom to Choose




New Representations and Politics of Procreation




Dealing with What is Dealt: Feminists and Ageing



Coda



Women's Time: Simone de Beauvoir and the Independent Woman



Main Publications by Elizabeth Fallaize


Notes on the Contributors


Index