Contemporary Women Writers Look Back: From Irony to Nostalgia (Continuum Literary Studies)

by Alice Ridout (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $199.45

  An exploration of the use of re-writing by contemporary women writers that reveals a shift from 1960s irony to nostalgia in the twenty-first century. It traces the move in contemporary women's writing from the self-conscious, ironic parodies of postmodernism to the nostalgic and historical turn of the twenty-first century.