Background
Elam, Diane Michele was born on April 17, 1958 in Riverside, California, United States. Daughter of Douglas Bradly and Leslie J. (Parman) Elam.
("Romancing the Postmodern" exposes the theory of romance ...)
"Romancing the Postmodern" exposes the theory of romance to the romance of theory, outlining the implications for feminism of literature's least easily definable genre. By re-aligning the two powerful genres of postmodernism and romance, Diane Elam highlights what is unique to postmodernism about the definition of history, and reintroduces the previously hidden figure of woman in the light of new gender definitions. Elam offers a new theoretical stance, reaching back to literature's greatest romantic novelists - Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad - and forward to the postmodern "romances" of Italo Calvino and Kathy Acker. In bringing together a range of feminist analyses of genre, culture and history, "Romancing the Postmodern" also highlights postmodernism's ability to disrupt received meanings and to re-read history through the agency of gender. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics of English literature and comparative literature, women's studies and cultural studies.
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Elam, Diane Michele was born on April 17, 1958 in Riverside, California, United States. Daughter of Douglas Bradly and Leslie J. (Parman) Elam.
AB, Kenyon College, 1980. Master of Arts, Brown University, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1988.
Assistant professor, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1988-1991; assistant professor, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1991-1994; associate professor, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1994-1995; assistant professor, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1993-1994; Adjunct Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1994-1996; professor, U. Wales, Cardiff, since 1995.
("Romancing the Postmodern" exposes the theory of romance ...)
Member Modern Language Association.
Married William John Readings, August 9, 1988 (deceased October 1994).