Jeanette Winterson: A Contemporary Critical Guide

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Sonya Andermahr
Bloomsbury Academic, Dec 18, 2007 - Literary Criticism - 177 pages

Jeanette Winterson: A contemporary critical guide is a comprehensive introduction to Winterson's writing. It brings together new essays by leading critics writing on key topics across her work from early successes like Oranges are Not the Only Fruit to recent works like Lighthousekeeping. The guide provides students with an accessible and up-to-date critical guide to Winterson's most commonly studied texts, covering major themes and developments, and issues of style, technique and genre, from a range of contemporary critical and theoretical perspectives. Chapters identify and explore the key topics and debates including: story-telling; feminism and women's writing; historiographic metafiction; literary realism and postmodernism; religion and spirituality; masculinity; lesbian romance; queer theory; and psychoanalytic approaches. Each chapter includes an introductory overview outlining key themes, approaches and the texts covered. This is an ideal introduction to the variety of critical approaches to Winterson and her work.

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Contents

CHAPTER ONE Storytelling and Feminism
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CHAPTER TWO Wintersons Dislocated Discourses
27
CHAPTER THREE Wintersons Fabulous Bodies
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Sonya Andermahr is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton, UK.

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