Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Feminist Narratology

Ruth Page offers a critical new approach to analyzing the relationships between gender and narrative. She proposes an integrative framework for feminist narratology that draws on literary and linguistic perspectives, illustrated through a range of original studies that interrogate literary texts from different historical periods and expressive traditions, along with a range of non-literary narratives. This approach gives new direction to this important field of narrative analysis, challenging its earlier assumptions in the light of post-modern gender theory. Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Feminist Narratology offers a critical new approach to analyzing the relationships between gender and narrative. Amidst the diversification of postclassical narratology and of gender studies there have been calls for integration across disciplinary fields. This book responds to such a call and for the first time brings together a sustained examination of feminist narratology that combines literary and linguistic perspectives. It presents a series of original studies that include literary texts from different historical periods and expressive traditions, set alongside narratives from the media, emergent forms of hypertext and the storytelling of children. Ruth Page offers a timely re-evaluation of work that has flourished since the inception of feminist narratology in the mid-1980s, challenging its earlier assumptions in the light of more recent post-modern feminist theories. This approach re-energizes and extends the scope of feminist narratology, offering new directions for this important field of narrative theory "Literary and Linguistic: Approaches to Feminist Narratology offers a critical new approach to analyzing the relationships between gender and narrative. Amidst the diversification of postclassical narratology and of gender studies there have been calls for integration across disciplinary fields. This book responds to such a call and for the first time brings together a sustained examination of feminist narratology that combines literary and linguistic perspectives."--Jacket Front Matter....Pages i-xi Feminist Narratology in Context....Pages 1-19 The Question of Gender and Form....Pages 20-44 The Question of Gender and Context....Pages 45-72 The Importance of Similarities....Pages 73-93 Questioning Intra-category Variation....Pages 94-115 Media Narratives of Success and Failure....Pages 116-143 Gender, Age and Narrative Development....Pages 144-172 Beyond Feminist Narratology?....Pages 173-188 Back Matter....Pages 189-209 Ruth Page offers a new approach to analyzing the relationships between gender and narrative. Proposing an integrative framework for feminist narratology, she draws on literary and linguistic perspectives, illustrated by an interrogation of literary texts, from different historical periods and expressive traditions, and non-literary narratives.