Disruptive Women of Literature

Disruptive Women of Literature
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9781666951455
ISBN-13 : 1666951455
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Book Synopsis Disruptive Women of Literature by : Eleanore Gardner

Download or read book Disruptive Women of Literature written by Eleanore Gardner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disruptive Women of Literature: Rooting for the Antiheroine critically examines the representation of the literary antiheroine in contemporary Gothic and crime-thriller novels and traces her emergence from the deviant women of Greek mythology and Shakespeare to the twenty-first century. It explores how the antiheroine shifts dependent on genre, time period, and format, demonstrating that she is capable of both challenging and reaffirming problematic ideologies surrounding women, power, violence, sexuality, and motherhood. Eleanore Gardner argues that the antiheroine is almost always defined by her experience of a patriarchal trauma and must therefore navigate her identity differently and more complexly than her antihero counterpart. The author examines a broad range of texts to understand the antiheroine’s fluidity, her liminal and abject existence, and what these suggest about cultural anxieties surrounding transgressive women.


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