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Winterson Narrating Time and Space
Author(s): Mine Özyurt Kılıç (Author, Editor), Margaret J-M Sönmez (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 5 May 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 205 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443805149
- ISBN-13: 9781443805148
Book Description
In this book, scholars, students and aficionados of Jeanette Winterson will find ten analyses of time, space and narrative in her works. From her very first novel, Jeanette Winterson has made her characters move in time and in space, and she has always shown a sophisticated interest in narrative forms, and this is the first book to focus entirely on these central concerns. The writers of the essays provide different perspectives on the three subjects, from postmodernism to quantum physics, queer theory to genre studies and the uncanny to stylistics. In its section on time and narrative, the volume offers a fresh approach to Winterson’s works, with a concentration on autobiographical elements, love, desire, the language of quantum physics, and the queer uncanny. The next section, space and narrative, pursues the motifs of journeys, utopic spaces, cyberspace and labyrinths, and includes a chapter on the shorter fiction. The last section, which comprises essays that cover all three elements of time, space and narrative equally, examines these themes as they affect Winterson’s representation of voices and corporeality, and her use of romance narrative in the children’s fiction. The volume covers Winterson’s major fiction, with the Introduction connecting the images of huts, rivers and fire-gazing that are found extensively in her works to the themes of time and space, and bringing the discussion up to Winterson’s latest novel, The Stone Gods. A mixture of established and new scholars presents in this book an exciting array of the latest ideas on this respected and popular writer.
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About the Author
Margaret J-M Sönmez is a Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Language Education at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey. She has published on the history of language and on literature, and has a special interest in the language of literature. Mine Özyurt Kılıç is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University, Turkey. She has published on modern and contemporary British fiction, with a special interest in Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.
