Reading Women Writing – serie
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46 produkter
Autobiographical Voices
Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture
Inbunden, 1989
776 kr
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Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neale …
Unspeakable Mother
Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D.
Inbunden, 1989
1200 kr
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Moving back and forth between experience and language, The Unspeakable Mother operates out of the intersection of two perspectives: women's immersion in the mother/daughter dyad and the paradoxical absence of the mother in the daughter's discourse. Deborah Kelly Kloepfer calls attention to the …
Reading Gertrude Stein
Body, Text, Gnosis
Av Lisa Ruddick
Inbunden, 1990
825 kr
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"Ruddick's interpretative study of Gertrude Stein breaks new ground in both Stein studies and poststructural theory, remaining accessible while rejecting neither indeterminate polysemy nor the thematic unity of 'idea.'... Through valuable interpretations of the major early Stein texts ('Melanctha,' …
Articulate Silences
Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Joy Kogewa
Inbunden, 1993
1903 kr
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In this pathbreaking book, King-Kok Cheung sheds new light on the thematic and rhetoncal uses of silence in fiction by three Asian American women: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and JoyKogawa. Boldly articulating the unspeakable, these writers break the silence imposed by families or ethnic …
Women and Romance
The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel
Inbunden, 1990
825 kr
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According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte …
Narrative Transvestism
Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
Inbunden, 1992
825 kr
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Many of the earliest canonical novels—including Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana and Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa—were written by men who assumed the first-person narrative voice of women. What does it mean for a man to write his "autobiography" as if he were a woman? What did early novelists …
Feminist Theory, Women's Writing
Inbunden, 1992
689 kr
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In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their …
Woman and Modernity
The (Life)Styles of Lou Andreas-Salomé
Inbunden, 1991
1903 kr
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Woman and Modernity provides what previous studies of Salomé have in large part neglected to offer—a sustained investigation of the literariness of Salomé's texts and of Salomé as a significant reader of modernity. Focusing on key encounters in Salomé's writings, such as her exchanges with …
Penelope Voyages
Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition
Inbunden, 1994
1903 kr
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Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead of waiting patiently for Odysseus, Penelope voyages and records her journey—when the woman who is expected to waitsets forth herself and traces an …
Greatness Engendered
George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
Av Alison Booth
Inbunden, 1992
825 kr
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The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppress the need to strive for greatness. In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of …
Kassandra and the Censors
Greek Poetry Since 1967
Inbunden, 1997
1903 kr
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In this pioneering study of contemporary Greek poetry, Karen Van Dyck investigates modernist and postmodernist poetics at the edge of Europe. She traces the influential role of Greek women writers back to the sexual politics of censorship under the dictatorship (1967-1974). Reading the effects of …
Cartesian Women
Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime
Av Erica Harth
Inbunden, 1992
1655 kr
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The little-known writings that Erica Harth examines here reveal a remarkable chapter in the history of Western thought. Drawing upon current theoretical work in gender studies, cultural history, and literary criticism, Harth looks at how women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France attempted …
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces
The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture
Inbunden, 1993
825 kr
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Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction—the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over …
Outside the Pale
Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer
Inbunden, 1993
1903 kr
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Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture. Exploring a series of abhorrent images, Michie …
Borderwork
Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature
Inbunden, 1994
825 kr
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The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of …
Feminist Conversations
Fuller, Emerson, and the Play of Reading
Inbunden, 1995
1903 kr
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In a new account of the relationship between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christina Zwarg recreates a feminist conversation that has gone unheard. In Zwarg's view, the intimate, yet restrained, letters between the two writers are most significant in confronting the challenges posed by …
Going Public
Women and Publishing in Early Modern France
Av Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, Dena Goodman
Inbunden, 1995
1885 kr
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The public sector currently employs around 40 percent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality government services have placed new demands on the labor-management relationship. A fluctuating set of expectations about the appropriate responsibilities of …
Postcolonial Representations
Women, Literature, Identity
Inbunden, 2013
1903 kr
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Passionate allegiances to competing theoretical camps have stifled dialogue among today's literary critics, asserts Françoise Lionnet. Discussing a number of postcolonial narratives by women from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, she offers a comparative feminist approach that can …
Nobody's Angels
Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture
Inbunden, 1995
1704 kr
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Victoria's accession to the throne in 1837 coincided with the birth of a now notorious gender stereotype—the "Angel in the House." Comparing the position of real women—from the Queen of England to middle-class housewives—with their status as household angels, Elizabeth Langland explores a complex …
Beyond Consolation
Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy
Inbunden, 1997
1903 kr
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Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, the …
Imperialism at Home
Race and Victorian Women's Fiction
Av Susan Meyer
Inbunden, 1996
1903 kr
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The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each …
Dwelling in Possibility
Women Poets and Critics on Poetry
Av Yopie Prins, Maeera Shreiber
Inbunden, 1997
1903 kr
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"Dwelling in Possibility is a splendid collaboration between poets and critics. Prins and Shreiber have interwoven sophisticated feminist critical essays with poetic meditations on genre and gender; the dialogues they set up are lyrically elegant as well as intellectually exhilarating. This …
From the Margins of Empire
Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer
Av Louise Yelin
Inbunden, 1998
1903 kr
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Situated at the intersection of the colonial and the postcolonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to this century's global transformations. From the Margins of Empire looks at how the question of national identity is …
Outside the Pale
Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer
Häftad, 1993
580 kr
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Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture. Exploring a series of abhorrent images, Michie …
Feminist Conversations
Fuller, Emerson, and the Play of Reading
Häftad, 1995
678 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In a new account of the relationship between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christina Zwarg recreates a feminist conversation that has gone unheard. In Zwarg's view, the intimate, yet restrained, letters between the two writers are most significant in confronting the challenges posed by …
Articulate Silences
Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Joy Kogewa
Häftad, 1993
531 kr
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In this pathbreaking book, King-Kok Cheung sheds new light on the thematic and rhetoncal uses of silence in fiction by three Asian American women: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and JoyKogawa. Boldly articulating the unspeakable, these writers break the silence imposed by families or ethnic …
Postcolonial Representations
Women, Literature, Identity
Häftad, 2013
563 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Passionate allegiances to competing theoretical camps have stifled dialogue among today's literary critics, asserts Françoise Lionnet. Discussing a number of postcolonial narratives by women from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, she offers a comparative feminist approach that can …
Nobody's Angels
Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture
Häftad, 1995
505 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Victoria's accession to the throne in 1837 coincided with the birth of a now notorious gender stereotype—the "Angel in the House." Comparing the position of real women—from the Queen of England to middle-class housewives—with their status as household angels, Elizabeth Langland explores a complex …
