Gender And Literary Voice

Author : Janet M. Todd,Janet Todd
Publisher : New York : Holmes & Meier
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Authorship
ISBN : UCSC:32106006342916

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Gender and Literary Voice by Janet M. Todd,Janet Todd Pdf

Is literature androgynous? Can a language used by men effectively express women's perceptions? This book debates the presence of a distinctive female style, voice, or content in the literature written by women from the middle ages to the twentieth century. Mary Wollstonecraft and Fanny Bur-ney wrote on the linguistic difficulties of women's prose; Virginia Woolf expressed hopes for an androgynous literary future. The authors of Gender and Literary Voice consider thematic and stylistic differences and then range themselves on both sides of this debate. The role of female experi-ence; the passive mode; female appropriation of traditionally male forms of literature such as the bildtingsroman: semantic idiosyncrasies -- these are the elusive topics raised by contemporary critics of women's literature. Among the contributors to this important volume of feminist criticism are Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Wilt, Marilyn Butler, and Mary Ann Caws.

Author : Rachel May Golden,Katherine Kong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 0813069033

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Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song by Rachel May Golden,Katherine Kong Pdf

This volume brings together literary and musical compositions of medieval France, identifying the use of voice in these works as a way of articulating gendered identities.

Author : Aurora Wolfgang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351934725

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Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730–1782 by Aurora Wolfgang Pdf

Analyzing four best-selling novels - by both women and men - written in the feminine voice, this book traces how the creation of women-centered salons and the emergence of a feminine poetic style engendered a new type of literature in eighteenth-century France. The author argues that writing in a female voice allowed writers of both sexes to break with classical notions of literature and style, so that they could create a modern sensibility that appealed to a larger reading public, and gave them scope to innovate with style and form. Wolfgang brings to light how the 'female voice' in literature came to embody the language of sociability, but also allowed writers to explore the domain of inter-subjectivity, while creating new bonds between writers and the reading public. Through examination of Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne, Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne, Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd, and Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses, she shows that in France, this modern 'feminine' sensibility turned the least prestigious of literary genres - the novel - into the most compelling and innovative literary form of the eighteenth century. Emphasizing how the narratives analyzed here refashioned the French literary world through their linguistic innovation and expression of new forms of subjectivity, this study claims an important role for feminine-voice narratives in shaping the field of eighteenth-century literature.

Author : Susan Sniader Lanser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0801480205

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Fictions of Authority by Susan Sniader Lanser Pdf

Annotation Writing from positions of cultural exclusion, women have faced constraints not only upon the "content" of fiction but upon the act of narration itself. Narrative voice thus becomes a matter not simply of technique but of social authority: how to speak publicly, to whom, and in whose name. Susan Sniader Lanser here explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. Drawing upon narratological and feminist theory, Lanser sheds new light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power.

Author : Donald Wesling,Tadeusz Slawek
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791426289

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Literary Voice by Donald Wesling,Tadeusz Slawek Pdf

This response to Derrida's critique of the spoken uses dozens of examples in four languages to explore the voice that is in writing.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349628889

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'This Double Voice' by NA NA Pdf

The Double Voice reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education, and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere and to render male negotiations of gender invisible and transparent.

Author : Lilla Maria Crisafulli,Gilberta Golinelli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527534841

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Women’s Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English by Lilla Maria Crisafulli,Gilberta Golinelli Pdf

The volume investigates the ‘voice’ of women writers in the development of literary studies, and interrogates how scholars read and teach women’s literary texts. These issues are still crucial for women’s and gender studies today and deserve to be properly investigated and constantly updated. The various essays collected here examine how, and to what extent, ‘women’, across time and space, experimented with new genres or forms of expression in order to transform, question, resist or paradoxically consolidate gender discriminations and dominant ideologies: patriarchy, colonialism, slavery and racism, imperialism, religion, and (hetero)sexuality. Women’s Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English is addressed to MA and PhD students in women’s and gender studies, and to all those students or young scholars who are interested in gender methodologies as a mode of practice in literary criticism and analysis. The authors of the volume share a long-standing experience in women’s and gender studies and in teaching English women’s literature, literary criticism and feminist methodologies and theories to students from different national origins.

Author : R. Kim,C. Westall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137020758

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Cross-Gendered Literary Voices by R. Kim,C. Westall Pdf

This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts.

Author : Carol Gilligan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674445449

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In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan Pdf

This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into sixteen languages, with more than 700,000 copies sold around the world, In a Different Voice has inspired new research, new educational initiatives, and political debate—and helped many women and men to see themselves and each other in a different light.Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women—their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is truly a tour de force, which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience.

Author : Liz W. Faber
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781452964133

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The Computer's Voice by Liz W. Faber Pdf

A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. Why is Star Trek’s computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender is built into these devices, author Liz W. Faber explores contentious questions around gender: its fundamental constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally situated attitudes on male and female embodiment. Faber begins by considering talking spaceships like those in Star Trek, the film Dark Star, and the TV series Quark, revealing the ideologies that underlie space-age progress. She then moves on to an intrepid decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the evolution from the masculine voices of the ’70s and ’80s to the feminine ones of the ’90s and ’00s. Faber ends her account in the present, with incisive looks at the film Her and Siri herself. Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on voice-interactive computers, The Computer’s Voice breaks new ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender. It makes important contributions to conversations around the gender gap and the increasing acceptance of transgender people.

Author : D. Clarke
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0333677455

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This Double Voice by D. Clarke Pdf

"The Double Voice" reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere, and to render male negotiations of gender and sexuality invisible and transparent.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110897777

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The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures by Albrecht Classen Pdf

The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements.

Author : Sherry L. Linkon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317944966

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In Her Own Voice by Sherry L. Linkon Pdf

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. In Her Own Voice examines the literary history of women’s nonfiction writing through studies of individual writers, their works, and their careers. The essays in this collection consider the development of women’s public voices, relationships between women essayists and their editors and readers, and the fuzzy line that divides—or seems to divide—fiction from nonfiction. The book includes studies of some of the best known American women essayists, including Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, and Fanny Fern, and articles on women writers whose work has received very little attention, such as Gail Hamilton, Anna Julia Cooper, Ann Sophia Stephens, and Zitkala-Sa.

Author : Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015026803752

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Writing the Female Voice by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith Pdf

Author : Rachel May Golden,Katherine Kong
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813057927

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Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song by Rachel May Golden,Katherine Kong Pdf

This volume brings together literary and musical compositions of medieval France, including the Occitanian region, identifying the use of voice in these works as a way of articulating gendered identities. The contributors to this volume argue that because medieval texts were often read or sung aloud, voice is central for understanding the performance, transmission, and reception of work from the period across a wide variety of genres. These essays offer close readings of narrative and lyric poetry, chivalric romance, sermons, letters, political writing, motets, troubadour and trouvère lyric, crusade songs, love songs, and debate songs. Through literary, musical, and historiographical analyses, contributors highlight the voicing of gendered perspectives, expressions of sexuality, and power dynamics. The volume includes feminist readings, investigations of masculinity, queer theory, and intersectional approaches. The contributors interpret literary or musical works by Chrétien de Troyes, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Hue de la Ferté, the Chastelain de Couci, Jacques de Vitry, Christine de Pizan, Anne de Graville, Alain Chartier, and Giovanni Boccaccio, among others. Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song offers a valuable interdisciplinary approach and contributes to the history of women’s voices in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. It illuminates the critical role of voice in negotiating culture, celebrating and innovating traditions, advancing personal and political projects, and defining the literary and musical developments that shaped medieval France. Contributors: Lisa Colton | Emily J Hutchinson | Daisy Delogu | Tamara Bentley Caudill | Katherine Kong | Meghan Quinlan | Lydia M Walker | Rachel May Golden | Anna Kathryn Grau | Anne Adele Levitsky