Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction

Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-55231-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

Reihe: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, Elaine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

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

Über Autor(innen)

Elaine Wood holds a Ph.D. in English and Gender and Women’s Studies (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015) and a J.D. in Law (University of Miami School of Law, 2019). She serves as the Code of Conduct Ombudsperson for the International Flann O’Brien Society. Her teaching and scholarship investigate how to sustain and attain equity and justice at the intersection of sexuality and law. Prior to teaching Women’s and Gender Studies at Bucknell University, Professor Wood served as a law clerk for the U.S. Department of Justice.