Male Rage Female Fury
Marilyn Maxwell
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Description for Male Rage Female Fury
Hardback. This text investigates what happens when novels that have defied traditional literary conventions refuse to break with traditional gender-based stereotypes. The author argues that the result is an ambiguity that may produce more misogynistic images within the text. Num Pages: 336 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSK; JFFE; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
In four chapters, each dedicated to an experimental American novelist of the postmodern period, Male Rage Female Fury investigates what happens when novels that have defied traditional literary conventions such as temporal chronology, refuse to break with traditional gender-based stereotypes. The result, Maxwell argues, is an ambiguity or "internal tension" that may eventually produce more misogynistic images within the texts. Central to the study is an analysis of the violence, male and female initiated, in the works of the minimalists Barthelme and Didion, and the mythicists Pynchon and Morrison.
In four chapters, each dedicated to an experimental American novelist of the postmodern period, Male Rage Female Fury investigates what happens when novels that have defied traditional literary conventions such as temporal chronology, refuse to break with traditional gender-based stereotypes. The result, Maxwell argues, is an ambiguity or "internal tension" that may eventually produce more misogynistic images within the texts. Central to the study is an analysis of the violence, male and female initiated, in the works of the minimalists Barthelme and Didion, and the mythicists Pynchon and Morrison.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761818038
SKU
V9780761818038
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About Marilyn Maxwell
Marilyn Maxwell is an English Teacher at Hewlett High School in New York.
Reviews for Male Rage Female Fury
Critiques the silenced, violently oppressed women that postmodern authors—with the clear exception of Morrison—often do not take seriously.
American Literature
American Literature