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Author:

Marsh, Kelly A., 1968- author.

Title:

The submerged plot and the mother's pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy / Kelly A. Marsh.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

ix, 283 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Narration (Rhetoric)
Sex in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Daughters in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and (pages 267-275) index.

Contents:

Plot, progression, and the search for the mother's unnarratable pleasure -- The submerged plot and the interrelation of progression and character: "Persuasion" and "Jane Eyre" -- Dual and serial narration and the disclosure of the submerged plot: "Bleak house" and "The Woman in white" -- The house, the journey, and the spaces of the submerged plot: "The House of mirth" and "The last September" -- Surviving the submerged plot and the work of character narration: "The Color purple", "A Thousand acres", and "Bastard out of Carolina" -- The end of pleasure and the function of time in the submerged plot: "Talking to the dead" and "The God of small things" -- The evolution of the search.

Series:

Theory and interpretation of narrative

ISBN:

0814252613
9780814252611
0814212972
9780814212974

OCLC:

(OCoLC)926050285

LCCN:

2015034052

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)