Ambiguous Discourse: Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers

by Kathy Mezei

Book Overview

Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection of twelve essays is the first book devoted to feminist narratology--the combination of feminist theory with the study of the structures that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080784599X
• ISBN13: 9780807845998
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"