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  1. Transgressing boundaries in Jeanette Winterson's fiction
    Author: Front, Sonia
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main

  2. Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson's Fiction
    Author: Front, Sonia
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Lang, Peter, GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt

    The subsequent chapters of the book deal with selected questions from Jeanette Winterson's fiction, such as gender issues, love and eroticism, language and time, constituting areas within which Winterson's characters seek their identity. As they... more

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    The subsequent chapters of the book deal with selected questions from Jeanette Winterson's fiction, such as gender issues, love and eroticism, language and time, constituting areas within which Winterson's characters seek their identity. As they contest and repudiate cliches, stereotypes and patterns, their journey of self-discovery is accomplished through transgression. The book analyzes how the subversion of phallogocentric narrative and scenarios entails the reenvisaging of relations between the genders and reconceptualization of female desire. The author attempts to determine the consequen

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783631589533
    Scope: Online-Ressource (216 p)
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    Contents; Acknowledgements 7; Introduction 9; I. What if image smashed the glass?' - The Mise-en-scne of the Conflict 19; II. `It's the clichs that cause the trouble.' - Looking for the Language of Rapture 49; III. 'Take off your clothes. Take off your body.' - Erotic Configurations and the World of Collapsed Binaries 101; IV. Somewhere it is still in the original' - The Quest 131; V. "The path not taken and the forgotten angle" - Time, Memory, and History 159; Conclusions 201; Bibliography 205;