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- catalog abstract "Finuala Dowling provides an account of Weldon's fiction, from The Fat Woman's Joke to Splitting, and shares her delight in the narrative and thematic subversions she discovers in her study of these works. The book focuses on the disobedient female protagonists - madwomen and criminals, outcasts and she-devilswho are also the putative "authors" of Weldon's fictions. Dowling examines the hilarious narrative effects created by these marginal characters/narrators, seeing them as feminist strategies that enhance Weldon's gynocentric themes: single parenthood, sisterhood, reproduction, motherhood, sex, and marriage. This study raises several issues of general relevance to contemporary writing and criticism. The role of the media in presenting both author and oeuvre, the position of the woman writer vis-a-vis feminism, the confrontation of feminism and postmodernism, the question of popular versus high art forms, and the emergence of the author as public oracle are considered in relation to Weldon's considerable literary output.".
- catalog contributor b11142572.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Finuala Dowling provides an account of Weldon's fiction, from The Fat Woman's Joke to Splitting, and shares her delight in the narrative and thematic subversions she discovers in her study of these works. The book focuses on the disobedient female protagonists - madwomen and criminals, outcasts and she-devilswho are also the putative "authors" of Weldon's fictions. Dowling examines the hilarious narrative effects created by these marginal characters/narrators, seeing them as feminist strategies that enhance Weldon's gynocentric themes: single parenthood, sisterhood, reproduction, motherhood, sex, and marriage.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-190) and index.".
- catalog description "Sisterhood and solidarity: The fat woman's joke; Down among the women; Female friends -- Housewives, whores, phantoms, and feminists: Remember me; Little sisters; Praxis -- "The m(o)ther within": Puffball; The president's child; The life and loves of a she-devil -- "Towards a humorous view of the universe": The shrapnel academy; The heart of the country; The hearts and lives of men -- How many women can you fit into one body? From The rules of life to Splitting.".
- catalog description "This study raises several issues of general relevance to contemporary writing and criticism. The role of the media in presenting both author and oeuvre, the position of the woman writer vis-a-vis feminism, the confrontation of feminism and postmodernism, the question of popular versus high art forms, and the emergence of the author as public oracle are considered in relation to Weldon's considerable literary output.".
- catalog extent "194 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Fay Weldon's fiction.".
- catalog identifier "0838637507 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fay Weldon's fiction.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,".
- catalog relation "Fay Weldon's fiction.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "823/.914 21".
- catalog subject "PR6073.E374 Z62 1998".
- catalog subject "Weldon, Fay Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sisterhood and solidarity: The fat woman's joke; Down among the women; Female friends -- Housewives, whores, phantoms, and feminists: Remember me; Little sisters; Praxis -- "The m(o)ther within": Puffball; The president's child; The life and loves of a she-devil -- "Towards a humorous view of the universe": The shrapnel academy; The heart of the country; The hearts and lives of men -- How many women can you fit into one body? From The rules of life to Splitting.".
- catalog title "Fay Weldon's fiction / Finuala Dowling.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".