A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women: Fictions, Histories, Myths (1st ed. 2022) (Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing)
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- Synopsis
- This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatt’s representations of this figure show narratives of intellectual women to be inherently mythopoeic, or capable of restructuring the myth of the intellectual as male by default. This mythopoeia is, furthermore, intrinsically feminist in function, thus potentially broadening the conventional, limited view of women in intellectual history. The book will be the first study of Byatt’s work to examine this figure in detail, and the first study of women intellectuals in historical and literary discourse to apply concepts of mythopoeia and sexual difference in ways that allow new readings of women’s status and work in public spheres.
- Copyright:
- 2022
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- ISBN-13:
- 9783031086717
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783031086700
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 09/14/22
- Copyrighted By:
- The Editor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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