Research Catalog

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Description

1. vi, 189 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith sharean ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprisedof multiple and equal, human and non-human participants. This study argues thatthese writers' texts have an ecological significance in fostering respect for andunderstanding of difference, human and nonhuman.

Subject

1. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation
2. Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- > Criticism and interpretation
3. Smith, Ali, 1962- > Criticism and interpretation
4. Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941
5. Winterson, Jeanette 1959-
6. Smith, Ali 1962-
7. Ecocriticism
8. Ecofeminism in literature
9. Women and literature
10. Frauenroman
11. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. "Kew Gardens" narrative ecology: Virginia Woolf's ecofeminist imagination and the narrative discovery of Jacob's Room -- "All taken together": ecological form in Mrs. Dalloway -- Singing the world in the waves: ecopoetics of Woolf's play-poem -- Living with the other: Jeanette Winterson's written on the body -- Multiplicity and coexistence in The powerbook -- The fiction of abundance and awareness: Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping -- Hotel world: a symbiotic narrative space -- Getting close: ecopoetics of intimacy in Ali Smith's Like -- Stories that change the world: Ali Smith's ecological "realityfiction."

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Cover and spine title : Ecocritism and women writers

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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