Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women s Writing

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Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women s Writing

Author	: A. Heilmann
File Size	: 48,8 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 11 April 2007
ISBN	: 9780230206281
Pages	: 222 pages

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Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women s Writing by A. Heilmann Book PDF Summary

This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, the essays assembled here offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history.

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