Research Catalog

Title

Narrative in the feminine : Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard / Susan Knutson.

Author

Knutson, Susan Lynne.

Publication

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000.

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Description

xii, 233 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "Susan Knutson begins her study with an analysis of the contributions made by Marlatt and Brossard to international feminist theory. Part Two presents a narratological reading of How Hug a Stone, arguing that at the deepest level of narrative, Marlatt constructs a gender-inclusive human subject that defaults not to the generic masculine but to the feminine.
• Part Three proposes a parallel reading of Picture Theory, Brossard's playful novel that draws us into (re-) readings of many other texts written by Brossard, Barnes, Wittig, Joyce, de Beauvoir, Homer...to name a few. Chapter 12 closes with a reflection on the expression ecriture au feminin - a Quebecois contribution to an international theoretical debate.".
• "Readers who care about feminist writing and language theory, and students and teachers of Canadian literature and critical and queer studies, will find this book invaluable for its careful readings, its scholarly overview, and its extension of the feminist concept of the generic."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Marlatt, Daphne
• Brossard, Nicole
• Marlatt, Daphne, 1942-
• Brossard, Nicole, 1943-
• Feminist literary criticism
• Dialogue in literature
• Canadian literature > History and criticism
• Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Critique féministe
• Dialogue dans la littérature
• Écrits de femmes canadiens > Histoire et critique
• Littérature canadienne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Gender and Narrative Grammar. 1. Writing Women: Some Introductory Questions. 2. Theories of the (Masculine) Generic. 3. Narrative, Gnosis, Cognition, Knowing: Em[+female]bodied Narrative and the Reinvention of the World -- Pt. 2. A Narratological Reading of How Hug a Stone. 4. Fabula: Beyond Quest Teleology. 5. Story: Where the Body Is Written. 6. Textual Subjectivity, Marlatt's i/eye. 7. Intertextual Narrative -- Pt. 3. A Narratological Reading of Picture Theory. 8. Fabula: Hologram. 9. Story: The Holographic Plate. 10. Text: In Which the Reader Sees a Hologram in Her Mind's Eye. 11. Intertextual Metanarrative -- Pt. 4. Afterword. 12. In the Feminine.

ISBN

0889203016 (bound) :

LCCN

cn 99930632

OCLC

• ocm41224398
• SCSB-3866836

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries