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The Bleeding of America: Menstruation as Symbolic Economy in Pynchon, Faulkner, and Morrison
The Bleeding of America Menstruation as Symbolic Economy in Pynchon Faulkner and Morrison
Author: Dana Medoro
Working from the premise that the Puritan construction of America as a return to Eden endures into American literature of the 20th century, Medoro focuses on the rhetoric of cyclical regeneration, blood, and damnation that accompanies this construction. She argues that a semiotics of menstruation infuses this rhetoric and informs the figuration ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780313320590
ISBN-10: 0313320594
Publication Date: 8/30/2002
Pages: 200
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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