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Fatal attractions : re-scripting romance in contemporary literature and film
- Title
- Fatal attractions : re-scripting romance in contemporary literature and film / edited by Lynne Pearce and Gina Wisker.
- Publication
- London ; Sterling, VA : Pluto Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | NX650.L68 F38 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vi, 224 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Romance is one of the most enduring of the "grand narratives". This collection of essays considers the ways in which the codes and conventions of traditional romance are being rewritten and subverted in contemporary literature and film.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmographies.
- Contents
- 1. Rescripting Romance: An Introduction / Lynne Pearce and Gina Wisker -- 2. Hollywood Romance in the Aids Era: Ghost and When Harry Met Sally / Maria Lauret -- 3. Jane Eyre in Later Lives: Intertextual Strategies in Women's Self-Definition / Patsy Stoneman -- 4. If Looks Could Kill: Contemporary Women's Vampire Fictions / Gina Wisker -- 5. Prisons, Traps and Escape Routes: Feminist Critiques of Romance / Flora Alexander -- 6. Essentially Virtuous? Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac as Generic Subversion / Maroula Joannou -- 7. Another Time, Another Place: the Chronotope of Romantic Love in Contemporary Feminist Fiction / Lynne Pearce -- 8. Rewriting the Love Story: the Reader as Writer in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca / Judy Simons.
- ISBN
- 0745313868
- 9780745313863
- 0745313817
- 9780745313818
- 0861013817 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 98016430
- OCLC
- ocm38879272
- 38879272
- SCSB-9119781
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library