Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Harriet Blymiller Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 120 ISBN: 9783838325248
Описание
Contemporary British novelist Fay Weldon negotiates the postmodern "culture industry." Modernizing the strategies traditionally deployed by women writers, Weldon engages with the advertising industry and the mass-oriented literature of radio and television, using them to construct a career and a public identity for herself while advancing an alternative history of women in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She exploits the distinctions between high, popular, and mass cultures in order to provoke critical reflection; partly for this reason, her work resists academic criticism. The novels Praxis, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, and The Bulgari Connection explore the phenomenon Walter Benjamin described as the nullification of "aura" in the age of mechanical reproduction; they interrogate the connections between several kinds of reproduction associated with human gestation, women''s bodies and social identities, and language and...