Female Stories, Female Bodies

Female Stories, Female Bodies
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9781349262076
ISBN-13 : 1349262072
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Book Synopsis Female Stories, Female Bodies by : Lidia Curti

Download or read book Female Stories, Female Bodies written by Lidia Curti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book explores women's narratives in a wide variety of media and genre, from soap opera and film to the post-modern novel and Shakespearian drama. Adopting an innovative feminist perspective, it focuses particularly on the themes of hybridity and monstrosity in language and the body. In doing so, it raises issues to do with closure and temporal and spatial dislocation, drawing on themes of passion, paranoia and desire.


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