Women's Art of Telling Li(v)es: Female Artist Figures in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin
2012 | book part. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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Women's Art of Telling Li(v)es: Female Artist Figures in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin
Glaser, B. (2012)
In:Pankratz, Anette; Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara (Eds.), Portraits of the Artist as a Young Thing in British, Irish and Canadian Fiction after 1945 pp. 91-112. Heidelberg: Winter.
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- Authors
- Glaser, Brigitte
- Editors
- Pankratz, Anette; Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara
- Abstract
- The author is dead; long live the author. In a time when discourses, words and structures determine the discussion about literary texts, paradoxically, the figure of the artist looms large in novels, short stories, movies and plays. In a “post-Barthesian age” (Scherzinger) the figure of the artist is ascribed more and more significance. While the portraits of the artist as a young man are well-researched and documented, female artist figures in literature(s) in English are still more or less neglected. This volume of anglistik & englischunterricht attempts to fill the gap. The focus of the essays lies, firstly, on the (de-)constructions of gender, secondly, the complex self-reflexive functions of the artist figures and, thirdly, on the negotiations of cultural faultlines.
- Issue Date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Winter
- Organization
- Abteilung Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
- ISBN
- 978-3-8253-6059-7
- Language
- English