The submerged plot and the mother's pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy
By: Kelly A. Marsh
Series: Theory and interpretation of narrative; Theory and interpretation of narrative series
Publisher: The Ohio State University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814212974; 9780814252611
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Sex in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Feminism in literature; Daughters in literature; History and criticism; Fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plot, progression, and the search for the mother's unnarratable pleasure; title: The submerged plot and the interrelation of progression and character: "Persuasion" and "Jane Eyre"; title: Dual and serial narration and the disclosure of the submerged plot: "Bleak house" and "The Woman in white"; title: The house, the journey, and the spaces of the submerged plot: "The House of mirth" and "The last September"; title: Surviving the submerged plot and the work of character narration: "The Color purple", "A Thousand acres", and "Bastard out of Carolina"; title: The end of pleasure and the function of time in the submerged plot: "Talking to the dead" and "The God of small things"; title: The evolution of the search.