《含混的话语：女性主义叙事学与英国女作家》是由女性主义叙事学研究流派的创始人、领军人物和骨干学者合力打造的一部文集。十二位作者结合社会历史语境中的性别政治，探讨了包括简·奥斯丁、弗吉尼亚·吴尔夫、米娜·洛伊、安妮塔·布鲁克纳、安吉拉·卡特和珍妮特·温特森在内的六位英国女作家笔下的叙事结构和叙述技巧，并且尤为关注各种含混的表达方式所具有的性别含义，从多个角度展现出女性主义叙事学的阐释策略。

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Introduction. Contextualizing Feminist Narratology 1
\t\tKathy Mezei
The Look, the Body, and the Heroine of Persuasion:
A Feminist-Narratological View of Jane Austen 21
\t\tRobyn Warhol
Discourse, Gender, and Gossip:
Some Reflections on Bakhtin and Emma 40
\t\tChristine Roulston
Who Is Speaking Here?
Free Indirect Discourse, Gender, and Authority in Emma, Howards End, and Mrs. Dalloway 66
\t\tKathy Mezei
Parsing the Female Sentence:
The Paradox of Containment in Virginia Woolf's Narratives 93
\t\tDenise Delorey
Spatialization, Narrative Theory, and Virginia Woolf's
The Voyage Out 109
\t\tSusan Stanford Friedman
The Rhetoric of Feminist Conversation:
Virginia Woolf and the Trope of the Twist 137
\t\tMelba Cuddy-Keane
The Terror and the Ecstasy:
The Textual Politics of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway 162
\t\tPatricia Matson
Seismic Orgasm: Sexual Intercourse and
Narrative Meaning in Mina Loy 187
\t\tRachel Blau DuPlessis
Ironies of Politeness in Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac 215
\t\tJanet Giltrow
Angela Carter's New Eve(lyn):
De/En-Gendering Narrative 238
\t\tAlison Lee
Queering Narratology 250
\t\tSusan S. Lanser
Coda. Incredulity toward Metanarrative:
Negotiating Postmodernism and Feminisms 262
\t\tLinda Hutcheon
Select Bibliography on Feminist Narratology 269
\t\tKathy Mezei
Notes on the Contributors 273
Index 275