Feminism, form and the fiction of Rosa Montero and Esther Tusquets

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" Feminism, form and the fiction of Rosa Montero and Esther Tusquets "
Lonsdale, Laura

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1098956
Doc. No	:	TLets557100
Main Entry	:	Lonsdale, Laura
Title & Author	:	Feminism, form and the fiction of Rosa Montero and Esther Tusquets\ Lonsdale, Laura
College	:	University of Birmingham
Date	:	2008
student score	:	2008
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	The thesis takes a metacritical VIew of the application of feministmethodology to the fictional writing of Rosa Montero and Esther Tusquets. It placesthis in the context of current debates concerning the relationship between aestheticsand ideology in readings of literature, drawing on theories of both feminist anddemocratic aesthetics. Whilst I take the view that the appropriation of the authors'work as feminist is problematic, it is not my concern either to deny its gender-politicalcontent or to critique its gender-political stance. Instead, I contend that criticalassociations between feminism and form have been limiting, relying too strongly onan idiom of subversion, and creating homologies between social and narrativestructures. I therefore argue that a different kind of attention to form and language isnecessary. Outlining an individual 'aesthetic' for each writer, I aim to describe the'perceptual values' (Wellek and Warren 1956: 34) according to which political andformal concerns are brought together in the authors' writing. This not only allows fora more nuanced reading of the ways in which politics inhere in their texts, butgenerates a more democratic understanding of the ways in which gender-politicalwriting inheres in the social and political realm.
Added Entry	:	University of Birmingham