Imagining Gender In Biographical Fiction

Author : Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3031090187

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Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction by Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill Pdf

This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their ‘raw material’, the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Author : Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031090196

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Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction by Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill Pdf

This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their ‘raw material’, the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Susan Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1601297297

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Sisters in Time by Susan Morgan Pdf

Asking why the 19th-century British novel features heroines, and how and why it features ""feminine heroism,"" Susan Morgan traces the relationship between fictional depictions of gender and Victorian ideas of history and progress. Morgan approaches gender in selected 19th-century British novels as an imaginative category, accessible to authors and characters of either sex. Arguing that conventional definitions of heroism offer a fixed and history-denying perspective on life, the book traces a literary tradition that represents social progress as a process of feminization. The capacities for f.

Author : Amal Amireh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136712609

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The Factory Girl and the Seamstress by Amal Amireh Pdf

This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with their society's economic and social relaities. Against this view and to highlight the cultural importance of working-class women, this study argues that, in responding to industrialization, middle class writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Fern, Davies, and Phelps used the figures of the factory worker and the seamstress to express their anxieties about unstable gender and class identitites. These fictional representations were influenced by, and contributed to, an important but understudied cultural debate about wage labor, working women, and class.

Author : Alison Gibbons,Elizabeth King
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496234612

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Reading the Contemporary Author by Alison Gibbons,Elizabeth King Pdf

Reading the Contemporary Author brings together leading scholars in cultural theory, literary criticism, stylistics, narratology, comparative literature, and autobiography studies to interrogate how we read the contemporary author in public and cultural life, in life writing, and in literature.

Author : Martin Procházka
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800086548

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From Shakespeare to Autofiction by Martin Procházka Pdf

From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of empirical authors, through collaborative authorship and authorship as ‘cultural capital’, to the shifting roles of authors in recent autofiction and biofiction. In response to Roland Barthes’ ‘removal of the Author’ and its substitution by Michel Foucault’s ‘author function’, different historical forms of modern authorship are approached as ‘multiplicities’ integrated by agency, performativity and intensity in the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Wolfgang Iser, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The book also reassesses recent debates of authorship in European and Latin American literatures. It demonstrates that the outcomes of these debates need wider theoretical and methodological reflection that takes into account the historical development of authorship and changing understandings of fiction, performativity and new media. Individual chapters trace significant moments in the history of authorship from the early modernity to the present (from Shakespeare’s First Folio to Latin American experimental autofiction), and discuss the methodologies reinstating the author and authorship as the irreducible aspects of literary process. Praise for From Shakespeare to Autofiction 'In this collection a multicultural group of literary scholars analyse a rich array of authorship types and models across four centuries. After decades of liquid poststructuralist concepts, it is refreshing and inspiring to think through such diversity of authorship strategies – from oral culture, through sociological constructs, to self-referential and autobiographical ontological games that writers play with us, their readers.' Pavel Drábek, University of Hull

Author : Katherine West Scheil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108416696

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Imagining Shakespeare's Wife by Katherine West Scheil Pdf

Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.

Author : Dallas John Baker,Donna Lee Brien,Nike Sulway
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527510777

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Recovering History through Fact and Fiction by Dallas John Baker,Donna Lee Brien,Nike Sulway Pdf

This edited collection brings together research that focuses on historic figures who have been largely neglected by history or forgotten over time. The question of how to recover, reclaim or retell the histories and stories of those obscured by the passage of time is one of growing public and scholarly interest. The volume includes chapters on a diverse array of topics, including semi-biographical fiction, digital and visual biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs, among others. Apart from the largely forgotten, the book provides fresh perspectives on historical figures whose biographies are distorted by their fame or limited by public perception. The subjects explored here include, among others, a child author, a Finnish grandmother, a cold war émigré, an Elizabethan era playwright, a castaway, a celebrated female artist, and the lauded personalities Mary Shelley, Judy Garland and J.R.R. Tolkien. Altogether, the chapters included in this collection offer a much-needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations and hybrids which will be of interest to academics and students of biography and life writing in general.

Author : B. Knights
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0333733568

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Writing Masculinities by B. Knights Pdf

The great bulk of work on gender in fiction and literature has reflected feminist concerns and focused on women authors. This book attempts to extend the contemporary preoccupation with representations of gender into the terrain of masculinity and male writing. Drawing on work in both the social sciences and humanities, it explores the narrative representation of masculinity in selected twentieth-century fictions ranging from classic texts by Lawrence and Conrad to novels by John Fowles, Graham Swift, David Leavitt and others.

Author : K. Cooper,E. Short
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137283382

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The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction by K. Cooper,E. Short Pdf

From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.

Author : Debayan Deb Barman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793649584

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Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction by Debayan Deb Barman Pdf

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction. In this anthology of critical essays by scholars on detective fiction, we have divided the contents into three groups. First, there are essays on classic British detective fiction, with essays on Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, P.D.James, Kate Atkinson, and Margery Allingham. The second section is on American hard-boiled fiction with essays on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The third section is on Bengali detective fiction with essays on Hemendra Kumar Roy, Saradindu Bandyopadhay and Satyajit Ray. Together, these essays bring three strains of detective fiction into conversation to show the gradual postcolonial attempt of Bengali detective fiction to outgrow colonial influences and create an original and organic tradition of regional and vernacular detective fiction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004434356

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Neo-Victorian Biofiction by Anonim Pdf

Highlighting neo-Victorian biofiction’s crucial role in reimagining and augmenting the historical archive, this volume explores the complex ethical consequences of a creative movement of historiographic revisionism, combining biography and fiction in a dialectic tension of empathy and voyeuristic spectacle.

Author : Susan Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195363302

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Sisters in Time by Susan Morgan Pdf

Asking why the 19th-century British novel features heroines, and how and why it features "feminine heroism," Susan Morgan traces the relationship between fictional depictions of gender and Victorian ideas of history and progress. Morgan approaches gender in selected 19th-century British novels as an imaginative category, accessible to authors and characters of either sex. Arguing that conventional definitions of heroism offer a fixed and history-denying perspective on life, the book traces a literary tradition that represents social progress as a process of feminization. The capacities for flexibility, mercy, and self-doubt, conventionally devalued as feminine, can make it possible for characters to enter history. She shows that Austen and Scott offer revolutionary definitions of feminine heroism, and the tradition is elaborated and transformed by Gaskell, Eliot, Meredith, and James (partly through one of his last "heroines," the aging hero of The Ambassadors.) Throughout the study, Morgan considers how gender functions both in individual novels and more extensively as a means of tracing larger patterns and interests, especially those concerned with the redemptive possibilities of a temporal and historical perspective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015021586170

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Research Guide to Biography and Criticism: 1990 update by Anonim Pdf

Author : Önder Çakırtaş
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781648897931

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Dogmas in Literature and Literary Missionary: Text, Reader and Critique by Önder Çakırtaş Pdf

Literature does have an aspect that drags the readers, habitually burying them in its pages and blindly attaching them to itself. Blind devotion stems from the factors that are effective in determining the readers' faith. Theories of literature, similarly, might bring about the generation of blind adherence and dogmatic approaches. This book explores the existence of dogma in literature and some cult texts and writers and how dogmas in literature are conveyed to various audiences as a mission by some literary readers, experts, and academics. Generally, dogma is a word related mostly to religion. In this frame, Mathew Arnold's 'Dogma in Religion and Literature' is of great importance as far as religion is concerned. However, there are dogmas in every field, literature being no exception. Virginia Woolf, for instance, wrote stupendous works that turned out to be well-known, and in 1928, she delivered a lecture at Cambridge University, where women were once not allowed, that formed the basis for the celebrated 'A Room of One's Own' (1929). Roland Barthes' 1967 'La mort de l'auteur' ('The Death of the Author') essay might be another text that some of its literary readers have developed a dogmatic commitment to. In addition to revealing how dogma finds its place in literature, this book also discusses how literary writers and readers often unwittingly embrace 'literary missionary.' Focusing on the dogmatic elements of literature and the dogmatized literary theory and criticism through cult works of various authors, the book offers a striking and interesting contribution to literary theory and criticism and literature readings.