Ambiguous Discourse
Subtitle: Feminist Narratology & British Women Writers
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780807822906
Subjects: Feminism; Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; History and criticism; Women As Authors (English Literature); Women In English Literature; English; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Feminism and literature; Feminist; English fiction; Feminist fiction, English; Great Britain; History; Women authors
First sentence: Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818) is a novel constructed around what was, for its time, a radically unusual narrative premise: the love affair that should have culminated in a marriage to end a conventional romance has gone awry, and the heroine of the piece must begin again, eight and a half years later, on her quest for narrative closure.