{"product_id":"the-submerged-plot-and-the-mothers-pleasure-from-jane-austen-to-arundhati-roy-paperback","title":"The Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKelly a. Marsh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy\u003c\/i\u003e, Kelly A. Marsh examines the familiar, overt plot of the motherless daughter growing into maturity and argues that it is accompanied by a covert plot. Marsh's insightful analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglophone novels reveal that these novels are far richer and more complexly layered than the overt plot alone suggests. According to Marsh, as the daughter approaches adulthood and marriage, she seeks validation for her pleasure in her mother's story. However, because the mother's pleasure is taboo under patriarchy and is therefore unnarratable, the daughter must seek her mother's story by repeating it. These repetitions alert us to the ways the two plots are intertwined and alter our perception of the narrative progression. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Combining feminist and rhetorical narratological approaches, Marsh's study offers fresh readings of \u003ci\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last September\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Acres\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBastard Out of Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTalking to the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e. Through these readings, \u003ci\u003eThe Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the unnarratable can be communicated in fiction and offers a significant contribution to our understanding of narrative progression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kelly A. Marsh is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 02, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751348142368,"sku":"9780814252611","price":59.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f1f723749c8b509825378f789bb3d8e3.jpg?v=1779971414","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-submerged-plot-and-the-mothers-pleasure-from-jane-austen-to-arundhati-roy-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}