The Experimental Self
Subtitle: Dialogic Subjectivity in Woolf, Pym, and Brooke-Rose (Ad Feminam)
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University
Published: January 31, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780809320615
Subjects: Literary theory; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women Authors; History and criticism; 20th Century English Novel And Short Story; Women As Authors (English Literature); Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Sociology; Feminist; Brooke-Rose, Christine; Literary Criticism & Collections / Women Authors; Pym, Barbara; Technique; English fiction; Women and literature; 20th century; Experimental fiction, English; Great Britain; History
Description: Acknowledging the importance of Bakhtin's concept of the dialogic, Judy Little utilizes the insights of Bakhtin and theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard as strategies for examining the political complexity of the "self" as Virginia Woolf, Barbara Pym, and Christine Brooke-Rose construct it in their fiction.

Woolf, Pym, and Brooke-Rose, she argues, manifest a creative, experimental relationship to Western discourses of subjectivity, and their novels construct ideologically mobile selves that thrive on dialogic appropriation and transformation.