C 2019

Return of True Romance in Jeanette Winterson’s Stone Gods

WEISS, Michaela

Basic information

Original name

Return of True Romance in Jeanette Winterson’s Stone Gods

Authors

WEISS, Michaela

Edition

1. vyd. Newcastle upon Tyne, Postmillennial Trends in Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media, p. 37-51, 15 pp. 2019

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Chapter(s) of a specialized book

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Publication form

printed version "print"

Organization

Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta – Slezská univerzita v Opavě – Repository

ISBN

1-5275-2709-3

Keywords (in Czech)

metamodernismus; metafikce; etaromantismus; Jeanette Winterson; ekofeminismus

Keywords in English

Metamodernism; metafiction; metaromanticism; Jeanette Winterson; ecological feminism

Tags

SGS42018, ÚCJ

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 1/4/2019 10:48, PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The paper analyses the concept of time, space and gender-transcending romantic love as portrayed in the novel The Stone Gods (2007) by Jeanette Winterson. The narrative consists of three interconnected stories set in various times and spaces that are bound together by a protagonist Billie/Billy Crusoe and his/her lover Spike/Spikkers who always fall in love in the most improbable places when facing economic or ecologic destruction. Even though the whole novel bears the signs of dystopia, it nevertheless includes multiple poetic passages that emphasize the human connection as the basis of humanity, even when one of the lovers is a Robo sapiens. Love is thus seen as an ultimate human and humanist feature that serves as a solid and stable point of reference in a world that often does not make sense. In the novel Winterson embraces human past and potential future and folds it into a fluid and omnipresent history of mankind and love without prejudice that is presented as the only meaningful alternative to consumerism, bigotry, or consumerism. The flourishing romance is also connected with attempts to save the last virgin lands and nature, the paradises that are threatened to be lost. Winterson thus brings back to life the Romantic connection between self, nature, love, and meaning, and contrasts it with the postmodern dystopian warning about the extent of ecological and political crisis mankind is facing.
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