Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction
Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists
- 144 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists provides a chronological investigation of the innovative writing styles of canonical modernist writers to reveal a shift in gendered representations of sexual subjectivity.
Positioned at the nexus of studies on the body and sexuality in modernist literature, this book addresses the complex ways that constructions of female sexuality are understood culturally, politically, and epistemologically. Using close reading strategies to identify how modernist authors challenge representations of female positionality as passive, case studies consider how canonical modernist authors – Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett – found new ways to represent women as embodied, sexual, desired, and desiring subjects through prose, poetry, and drama. This book addresses Woolf's Orlando: A Biography (1928), Yeats' The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939), Beckett's Not I (1972), and other dramatic works. By rendering sexuality more obviously as a component of female character, these works of modernist literature shape our understanding of the artistic body as a structure for thinking about "woman" as a linguistic construct and material reality.
This study is will be of great interest to scholars in English literature, women and gender studies, and sexuality studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Makeup artists and characters: Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, and their literary fictions
- 1 Clothing and the female body in Woolf’s Orlando
- 2 Yeats’ female forms and poetic figures
- 3 Joyce’s portrait of the artist as a young girl
- 4 Playing the (body) part in Beckett’s theater
- Conclusion: The woman made-up
- Bibliography
- Index