Bringing new insights from genre theory to bear on the work of the
journalist and novelist Rebecca West, this study explores how West's
use of and combinations of multiple genres (often in single works) was
informed and furthered by her subversive feminist goals. Rebecca
West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres analyzes West's sense of genres
as dynamic and strategic processes with transgressive political ends
rather than as fixed and reified taxonomies, a radical new approach at
the time that is now mirrored in much contemporary theory. Surveying
her oeuvre from this point of view, the book goes on to examine
systematically West's writing from 1911-1941, including her early
journalism and criticism, such novels as The Return of the Soldier and
her controversial multi-genre epic Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
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1911-41
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781441117397
Publisert
2015
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1. utgave
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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