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Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists

By Elaine Wood

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
2020016931, 2020016932, 9780367857226, 9781003014591
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10006643 bytes)
Series
Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
Pages
\153
Topic
Literature Fiction
Time added
2021-06-13 05:03:41

Description

Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of contents Introduction: Makeup artists and characters: Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, and their literary fictions Notes 1 Clothing and the female body in Woolf’s Orlando Notes 2 Yeats’ female forms and poetic figures Section 1: artistic expression Section 2: dancer imagery Section 3: embodying knowledge Section 4: baptism of the sewer Notes 3 Joyce’s portrait of the artist as a young girl Section 1: Pépette’s Vanity Table and the Reign of Nuvoletta Section 2: Issy takes a (rain)bow at the playhouse Section 3: sexed education: Issy’s nightlesson in systemic inequality Section 4: the “sacred virginity” and nosepaper of a queen bee Notes 4 Playing the (body) part in Beckett’s theater Section 1: trapped, talking heads in Play and Happy Days Part 1, Play Part 2, Happy Days Section 2: “motionless” mouth speaks in Not I Section 3: the punctuating rhythms of Footfalls and Rockaby Part 1, Footfalls Part 2, Rockaby Notes Conclusion: The woman made-up Bibliography Index

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