Waiting for the End: Gender and Editing in the Contemporary Novel

by Earl G. Ingersoll

Waiting for the End examines two dozen contemporary novels as demonstrations of the continuing concern with the gender of ending in narrative. Traditional concepts of the role of ending came under question in the later twentieth century, as feminists began to argue that the structure of "rising action" and "climax" was patently masculinist. The effort to theorize alternatives to that structure was echoed by contemporary novelists, male as well...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611473691
• ISBN13: 9781611473698
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 286 Pages