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- catalog abstract "Since sexuality and sexual politics account for the most consistently engaged tensions in Milan Kundera's fiction, it is surprising that critical attention to Kundera's work has yet to produce an extensive study that concentrates on the Czech novelist's problematic representations of women. In this study, O'Brien offers two such in-depth considerations: First he tracks the (mis)representations of the female characters; then he explores the promise of reading Kundera from the feminist perspective. Initially, O'Brien takes Kundera to task for representing women from a perspective dominated by either/or, opposition-based frameworks. Instead of dismissing Kundera as sexist, however, O'Brien takes these concerns further, arguing that a feminist-postmodernist approach shows Kundera exposing, not reinforcing, the misrepresentation of women. Using an eclectic perspective that draws on the insights of feminist criticism and deconstruction, the author looks to strong women, such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being's Sabina in order to develop a method of simultaneously appreciating the complicated surfaces and the paradoxical depths of Kundera's work. Considering O'Brien's own cross-purpose and Kundera's famous penchant for ambiguity, the duality of O'Brien's conclusions are appropriate. Milan Kundera & Feminism considers Kundera's contributions to the feminist critique of representation without ignoring the serious difficulties for the feminist reader.".
- catalog alternative "Milan Kundera and feminism".
- catalog contributor b11153206.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. (MIS)Representing Women -- Madonna/whore -- Beauty/ugliness -- Male friendship/female antagonism -- Strength/weakness -- Free will/fate -- Ch. 2. Seeing through the opposition: Kundera, deconstruction, and feminism -- Deconstruction -- The joke -- Laughable loves -- Life Is elsewhere -- The farewell party -- The book of laughter and forgetting -- The unbearable lightness of being -- Immortality.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-170) and index.".
- catalog description "Initially, O'Brien takes Kundera to task for representing women from a perspective dominated by either/or, opposition-based frameworks. Instead of dismissing Kundera as sexist, however, O'Brien takes these concerns further, arguing that a feminist-postmodernist approach shows Kundera exposing, not reinforcing, the misrepresentation of women. Using an eclectic perspective that draws on the insights of feminist criticism and deconstruction, the author looks to strong women, such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being's Sabina in order to develop a method of simultaneously appreciating the complicated surfaces and the paradoxical depths of Kundera's work. Considering O'Brien's own cross-purpose and Kundera's famous penchant for ambiguity, the duality of O'Brien's conclusions are appropriate. Milan Kundera & Feminism considers Kundera's contributions to the feminist critique of representation without ignoring the serious difficulties for the feminist reader.".
- catalog description "Since sexuality and sexual politics account for the most consistently engaged tensions in Milan Kundera's fiction, it is surprising that critical attention to Kundera's work has yet to produce an extensive study that concentrates on the Czech novelist's problematic representations of women. In this study, O'Brien offers two such in-depth considerations: First he tracks the (mis)representations of the female characters; then he explores the promise of reading Kundera from the feminist perspective.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 178 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Milan Kundera & feminism.".
- catalog identifier "0312122063".
- catalog isFormatOf "Milan Kundera & feminism.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog relation "Milan Kundera & feminism.".
- catalog subject "891.8/68509 20".
- catalog subject "Kundera, Milan Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PG5039.21.U6 Z84 1995".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. (MIS)Representing Women -- Madonna/whore -- Beauty/ugliness -- Male friendship/female antagonism -- Strength/weakness -- Free will/fate -- Ch. 2. Seeing through the opposition: Kundera, deconstruction, and feminism -- Deconstruction -- The joke -- Laughable loves -- Life Is elsewhere -- The farewell party -- The book of laughter and forgetting -- The unbearable lightness of being -- Immortality.".
- catalog title "Milan Kundera & feminism : dangerous intersections / John O'Brien.".
- catalog title "Milan Kundera and feminism".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".