by Lorna Sage
First published 1992
Lorna Sage takes apart the machinery of narrative to reveal how it works today. She examines the forces that challenge traditional ideas about what counts as women's literary work. Sage argues that female writers are actively dismantling established boundaries and creating new forms of storytelling. The book shows how these creative energies transform our understanding of narrative structure and purpose. Sage demonstrates that women's fiction operates by different rules than critics have long assumed. She traces the ways female authors reject conventional definitions of their craft. The analysis reveals how contemporary women writers build stories that resist easy categorization. Sage celebrates the power of this literary rebellion while critiquing the narrative assumptions it overturns. Her work maps the territory where traditional storytelling meets radical reinvention.
Genres: literary-criticism, 20th-century, gender-studies, feminism, 21st-century, academic
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: dismantling-boundaries, radical-reinvention
228 pages · Hardcover · Palgrave Macmillan