TY - GEN T1 - All contraries confounded : the lyrical fiction of Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Marguerite Duras A1 - Kaivola, Karen, 1957- LA - English PP - Iowa City, Iowa PB - University of Iowa Press YR - 1991 ED - 1st ed. UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm44963094 AB - This insightful volume extends feminist critical studies of twentieth-century women writers as it examines the complex ways female subjectivity experiences and is shaped by gender and power in literary texts. Because of the ways ambivalence and contradiction operate in the works of Woolf, Barnes, and Duras, to read them is to able to interrogate and thus more fully understand the ways our own subjectivity are constructed in relation to complex configurations of desire, loss, sexuality, power, vulnerability, and violence. Kaivola has worked out a strikingly original means of reading difference- OP - 176 CN - PR6045.O72 Z746 1991eb SN - 1587291223 SN - 9781587291227 SN - 0877453233 SN - 0877453241 SN - 9780877453239 SN - 9780877453246 KW - Woolf, Virginia, : 1882-1941 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Barnes, Djuna : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Duras, Marguerite : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Woolf, Virginia, : 1882-1941 : Critique et interprétation. KW - Barnes, Djuna : Critique et interprétation. KW - Duras, Marguerite : Critique et interprétation. KW - Barnes, Djuna KW - Duras, Marguerite KW - Woolf, Virginia, : 1882-1941 KW - Woolf, Virginia. KW - Barnes, Djuna. KW - Duras, Marguerite. KW - Fiction : Women authors : History and criticism. KW - Women and literature : History : 20th century. KW - Fiction : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Femmes et littérature : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Roman : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Écrits de femmes : Histoire et critique. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - Fiction KW - Fiction : Women authors KW - Women and literature KW - Subjektivität KW - Frau KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -