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Letters and labyrinths : women writing/cultural codes
- Title
- Letters and labyrinths : women writing/cultural codes / Diane Cousineau.
- Author
- Cousineau, Diane, 1946-
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Ptesses, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR119 .C74 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 231 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Letters and labyrinths, towers, mirrors, and photographs - these objects surround us in our daily lives and speak to the creativity and innovative possibilities of human culture, the degree to which we invent, form, shape, and give meaning to our world and lives. However, one might also suggest that they are emblematic of a code that has already been put in place and that we are the mere perpetuators of a master plot. This book explores the way these objects, vacillating between concrete presences and metaphorical configurations, inform literary texts and provide a suggestive background on which to interrogate gender-related issues as well as questions of subjectivity.
- Subject
- Duras, Marguerite
- Amant (Duras, Marguerite)
- 1900-1999
- English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Women and literature > English-speaking countries
- Authorship > Sex differences
- Letters in literature
- Memory in literature
- Autobiography
- Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Women and literature > England > History
- Autobiographies as Topic
- autobiography (genre)
- American literature > Women authors
- Authorship > Sex differences
- Autobiography
- English literature > Women authors
- Letters in literature
- Memory in literature
- Women and literature
- Schriftstellerin
- Diskurs
- Identitätsfindung
- Littérature américaine > Femmes écrivains > Histoire et critique
- Littérature anglaise > Femmes écrivains > Histoire et critique
- Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire
- Mémoire > Dans la littérature
- Autobiographie
- Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire
- Littérature anglophone > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Littérature anglophone > Femmes écrivains
- Correspondance > Dans la littérature
- Littérature > Thèmes, motifs
- United States
- England
- English-speaking countries
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- History
- Autobiographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-227) and index.
- Contents
- Letters and the post office : epistolary exchange in Jane Austen's Emma -- Towers in the distance : Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- Reflecting surfaces : mirrors and autobiography. Life-writing, the body, and the mirror gaze : Virginia Woolf's "A sketch of the past" ; Is there life beyond the looking glass? : Vivian Gornick's Fierce attachments ; Autobiography : innocent pose or naturalistic lie? : Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John -- The image and the word, history and memory in the photographic age : Marguerite Duras's The lover -- Labyrinths and spiderwebs : Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony.
- ISBN
- 087413627X
- 9780874136272
- LCCN
- 96053198
- OCLC
- ocm36159191
- 36159191
- SCSB-14527641
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library