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5 produkter
Venomous Woman
Fear of the Female in Literature
Inbunden, 1987
1222 kr
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This work demonstrates the ways in which a complex of ideas with a misogynistic basis relates to the image of the venomous woman--the woman who uses poisons or potions, who has a relationship with a venomous animal, or who is herself poisonous. Hallissy suggests that the venomous woman is an image …
Clean Maids, True Wives, Steadfast Widows
Chaucer's Women and Medieval Codes of Conduct
Inbunden, 1993
1222 kr
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Chaucer was a keen observer of the lives of women with a remarkable ability to see beyond his culture's preconceptions concerning their proper roles. The lives of medieval women were divided into three estates--virginity, wifehood, and widowhood--each with complex rules extending to particulars of …
Companion to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Inbunden, 1995
1141 kr
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This do-it-yourself course for the first-time Chaucer reader is geared specifically to high school and undergraduate students because it systematically proceeds through a clear explication of each tale and makes the tales accessible to those unfamiliar with Chaucer's work. Reading this book along …
Understanding Alice McDermott
Inbunden, 2020
363 kr
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Alice McDermott--winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and Whiting Award, and three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--recently published her eighth novel, The Ninth Hour, to great critical and popular acclaim. Her previous books, including Charming Billy, At Weddings and …
Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama
Inbunden, 2016
649 kr
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In Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama, Margaret Hallissy examines the work of a cross-section of important Irish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries who are representative of essential issues and themes in the canon of contemporary Irish literature. …
