Post War British Women Novelists And The Canon

Author : Nick Turner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441120946

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Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon by Nick Turner Pdf

With the increasing number of books on contemporary fiction, there is a need for a work that examines whom we value, and why. These questions lie at the heart of this book which, by focusing on four novelists, literary and popular, interrogates the canon over the last fifty years. The argument unfolds to demonstrate that academic trends increasingly control canonicity, as do the demands of genre, the increasing commercialisation of literature, and the power of the literary prize. Turner argues that literary excellence, demonstrated by style and imaginative power, is often missing in many works that have become modern classics and makes a case for the value of the 'universal' in literature. Written in a jargon-free style, with reference to many supporting writers, the book raises a number of significant cultural questions about the arts, fashions and literary reputations, of interest to readers in contemporary literary studies.

Author : Nick Peter Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Canon
ISBN : 1472542703

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Post-war British Women Novelists and the Canon by Nick Peter Turner Pdf

Author : Mary Eagleton,Emma Parker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137294814

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1970-Present by Mary Eagleton,Emma Parker Pdf

This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing since 1970.

Author : Patricia O'Byrne
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662742

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Post-war Spanish Women Novelists and the Recuperation of Historical Memory by Patricia O'Byrne Pdf

Reconstructs through testimonial literature the repression of women during the Franco years and recovers the writings of some of the forgotten post-war women novelists.

Author : Sue Kennedy,Jane Thomas
Publisher : Liverpool English Texts and St
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789621822

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British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960 by Sue Kennedy,Jane Thomas Pdf

This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women's writing by shedding new light on a group of authors commonly dismissed as middlebrow in their concerns and conservative in their styles and politics. The neologism 'interfeminism' - coined to partner Kristin Bluemel's 'intermodernism' - locates this group chronologically and ideologically between two 'waves' of feminism, whilst also forging connections between the political and cultural monoliths that have traditionally overshadowed them. Drawing attention to the strengths of this 'out-of-category' writing in its own right, this volume also highlights how intersecting discourses of gender, class and society in the interwar and post-war periods pave the way for the bold reassessments of female subjectivity that characterise second and third wave feminism. The essays showcase the stylistic, cultural and political vitality of a substantial group of women authors of fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and journalism including Vera Brittain, Storm Jameson, Nancy Mitford, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Rumer Godden, Attia Hosain, Doris Lessing, Kamala Markandaya, Susan Ertz, Marghanita Laski, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Pargeter, Eileen Bigland, Nancy Spain, Vera Laughton Matthews, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier, Barbara Comyns, Shelagh Delaney, Stevie Smith and Penelope Mortimer. Additional exploration of the popular magazines Woman's Weekly and Good Housekeeping and new material from the Vera Brittain archive add an innovative dimension to original readings of the literature of a transformative period of British social and cultural history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004305472

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Scholarly Editing and German Literature: Revision, Revaluation, Edition by Anonim Pdf

Scholarly Editing and German Literature: Revision, Revaluation, Edition offers international perspectives on the process, products and impacts of scholarly editing.

Author : Dorothee Birke,Stella Butter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110312911

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Realisms in Contemporary Culture by Dorothee Birke,Stella Butter Pdf

‘Realism’ is a pervasive term in discussions of contemporary developments in the cultural sphere. By drawing on different theories of realism, the authors explore how the term may be used as a helpful concept in order to analyse and evaluate current trends in cultural production and, in turn, how cultural production changes our understanding of what counts as ‘realism’. The contributions deal with realism in narrative fiction, drama and audiovisual media (film, television news) within the context of national traditions: examples drawn on in the case studies range from Africa, Britain, Germany, Iceland, Russia, Turkey to the United States. While the authors take their cues from media-specific ‘realisms’, focusing especially on narrative fiction, the volume also highlights continuities and intersections between notions of realism in different genres and media. With its original essays, this collection invigorates the transdisciplinary engagement with forms and socio-political functions of realism in contemporary culture.

Author : Doug Lemov,Colleen Driggs,Erica Woolway
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119104346

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Reading Reconsidered by Doug Lemov,Colleen Driggs,Erica Woolway Pdf

TEACH YOUR STUDENTS TO READ LIKE CHAMPIONS—WITH RIGOR, INDEPENDENCE, PRECISION, AND INSIGHT The world we are preparing our students to succeed in is one bound together by words and phrases. Our students learn their literature, history, math, science, or art via a firm foundation of strong reading skills. When we teach students to read with precision, rigor, and insight, we are truly handing over the key to the kingdom. Of all the subjects we teach reading is first among equals. Grounded in advice from effective classrooms nationwide, enhanced with more than 40 video clips, Reading Reconsidered takes you into the trenches with actionable guidance from real-life educators and instructional champions. The authors address the anxiety-inducing world of Common Core State Standards, distilling from those standards four key ideas that help hone teaching practices both generally and in preparation for assessments. This 'Core of the Core' comprises the first half of the book and instructs educators on how to teach students to: read harder texts, 'closely read' texts rigorously and intentionally, read nonfiction more effectively, and write more effectively in direct response to texts. The second half of Reading Reconsidered reinforces these principles, coupling them with the 'fundamentals' of reading instruction—a host of techniques and subject specific tools to reconsider how teachers approach such essential topics as vocabulary, interactive reading, and student autonomy. Reading Reconsidered breaks an overly broad issue into clear, easy-to-implement approaches. Filled with practical tools, including: 44 video clips of exemplar teachers demonstrating the techniques and principles in their classrooms (note: for online access of this content, please visit my.teachlikeachampion.com) Recommended book lists Downloadable tips and templates on key topics like reading nonfiction, vocabulary instruction, and literary terms and definitions. Reading Reconsidered provides the framework necessary for teachers to ensure that students forge futures as lifelong readers.

Author : Gillian Dow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137271747

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Uses of Austen by Gillian Dow Pdf

This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage.

Author : Lorna Sage
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780333286357

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Women in the House of Fiction by Lorna Sage Pdf

A study of post-war European and American writing by women. The author uses "the house of fiction" as a metaphor for containment and a reminder that fiction isn't placeless. Writers discussed include Simone de Beauvoir, Doris Lessing, Tillie Olsen, Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter and Toni Morrison.

Author : Emilie Walezak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350171374

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Rethinking Contemporary British Women’s Writing by Emilie Walezak Pdf

Providing close readings of well-known British realist writers including Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, Rose Tremain, Sarah Hall, Bernadine Evaristo and Zadie Smith, this book uses new directions in material and posthuman feminism to examine how contemporary women writers explore the challenges we collectively face today. Walezak redresses negative assumptions about realism's alleged conservatism and demonstrates the vitality and relevance of the realist genre in experimenting with the connections between individual and collective voices, human and non-human meditations, local and global scales, and author and reader. Considering how contemporary realist writing is attuned to pressing issues including globalization, climate change, and interconnectivity, this book provides innovative new ways of reading realism, examines how these writers are looking to reinvent the genre, and shows how realism helps reimagine our place in the world.

Author : Mark Shackleton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781443807272

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Diasporic Literature and Theory - Where Now? by Mark Shackleton Pdf

The theoretical innovations of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, James Clifford and others have in recent years vitalized postcolonial and diaspora studies, challenging ways in which we understand ‘culture’ and developing new ways of thinking beyond the confines of the nation state. The articles in this volume look at recent developments in diasporic literature and theory, alluding to the work of seminal diaspora theoreticians, but also interrogating such thinkers in the light of recent cultural production (including literature, film and visual art) as well as recent world events. The articles are organized in pairs, offering alternative perspectives on crucial aspects of diaspora theory today: Celebration or Melancholy?; Gender Biases and the Canon of Diasporic Literature; Diasporas of Violence and Terror; Time, Place and Diasporic “Home”; and Border Crossings. A number of the articles are illustrated by discussions of particular authors, such as Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, and Michael Ondaatje, and the range of reference found in this volume covers writing from many parts of the world including contemporary Chicana visual art, Asian diaspora writers, and Black British, Afro-Caribbean, Native North American, and African writing.

Author : P. Lassner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230503786

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British Women Writers of World War II by P. Lassner Pdf

In British Women Writers of World War II , Phyllis Lassner offers a challenging analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith and Storm Jameson debated the `justness' of World War II. Lassner questions prevailing approaches to women's war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women who redefined such pieties as patriotism and duty and heroism and victimization.

Author : Deborah Philips
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826487469

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Women's Fiction 1945-2005 by Deborah Philips Pdf

The paperback edition of major survey of popular women's fiction by wide range of North American and British writers.

Author : Deborah Philips
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441109040

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Women's Fiction by Deborah Philips Pdf

Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present. Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and American writers. Through these readings, the book explores how popular texts often neglected by feminist literary criticism have charted the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of women in the 20th and 21st centuries.