Rethinking Contemporary British Women S Writing

Author : Emilie Walezak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350171367

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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 : Lorraine Mary York
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802084656

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Rethinking Women's Collaborative Writing by Lorraine Mary York Pdf

York explores collaborative writing from women in Britain, the United States, Italy and France, illuminating the tensions in the collaborative process that grow out of important cultural, racial, and sexual differences between the authors.

Author : Radha Chakravarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317809951

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Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers by Radha Chakravarty Pdf

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison — are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the theoretical debate. A brief history of subjectivity and subject formation is reviewed in the light of the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Raymond Williams and Stephen Greenblatt, and the work of leading feminists is also seen contributing to the debate substantially.

Author : Emilie Walezak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350171387

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Contemporary British Womens Writing by Emilie Walezak Pdf

"This book addresses the reception of realist texts by contemporary women writers inherited from theories of social constructionism. Offering close readings of well-known British realist writers such as Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, and Rose Tremain as well as of emerging millennial writers such as Sarah Hall and Zadie Smith, it redresses negative assumptions about realism's alleged conservatism and normativity and uses the new directions of material and posthuman feminism to demonstrate the resurgence of realist writing in contemporary women's writing."--

Author : Jennie Batchelor,Caroline Bicks,Cora Kaplan,Jennifer Summit,Jacqueline M. Labbe
Publisher : History of British Women's Wri
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : CORNELL:31924114803939

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830 by Jennie Batchelor,Caroline Bicks,Cora Kaplan,Jennifer Summit,Jacqueline M. Labbe Pdf

Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this volume 2 examines the diversity of early women's writing (from verse and songs to household records and recipes), offering a new paradigm for understanding women's shaping roles in the literary, religious, and political movements of the sixteenth century.

Author : Sara Upstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317914808

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Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction by Sara Upstone Pdf

This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British literature away from concerns with specific racial groups towards a more sophisticated analysis of the contribution of a broad, post-racial British writing. Examining the work of writers from a wide range of diverse racial backgrounds, the book illustrates how contemporary British fiction, rather than merely reflecting social norms, is making a radical contribution towards the possible future of a positively multi-ethnic and post-racial Britain. This is developed by a strategic use of the realist form, which becomes a utopian device as it provides readers with a reality beyond current circumstances, yet one which is rooted within an identifiable world. Speaking to the specific contexts of British cultural politics, and directly connecting with contemporary debates surrounding race and identity in Britain, the author engages with a wide range of both mainstream and neglected authors, including Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, John Lanchester, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis, Jon McGregor, Andrea Levy, Bernardine Evaristo, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hari Kunzru, Nadeem Aslam, Meera Syal, Jackie Kay, Maggie Gee, and Neil Gaiman. This cutting-edge volume explores how contemporary fiction is at the centre of re-thinking how we engage with the question of race in twenty-first-century Britain.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0230200796

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The History of British Women's Writing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sara Upstone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317914815

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Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction by Sara Upstone Pdf

This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British literature away from concerns with specific racial groups towards a more sophisticated analysis of the contribution of a broad, post-racial British writing. Examining the work of writers from a wide range of diverse racial backgrounds, the book illustrates how contemporary British fiction, rather than merely reflecting social norms, is making a radical contribution towards the possible future of a positively multi-ethnic and post-racial Britain. This is developed by a strategic use of the realist form, which becomes a utopian device as it provides readers with a reality beyond current circumstances, yet one which is rooted within an identifiable world. Speaking to the specific contexts of British cultural politics, and directly connecting with contemporary debates surrounding race and identity in Britain, the author engages with a wide range of both mainstream and neglected authors, including Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, John Lanchester, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis, Jon McGregor, Andrea Levy, Bernardine Evaristo, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hari Kunzru, Nadeem Aslam, Meera Syal, Jackie Kay, Maggie Gee, and Neil Gaiman. This cutting-edge volume explores how contemporary fiction is at the centre of re-thinking how we engage with the question of race in twenty-first-century Britain.

Author : Anne Brewster,Sue Kossew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351606905

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Rethinking the Victim by Anne Brewster,Sue Kossew Pdf

This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field of violence studies to investigate how Australian women writers challenge the victim paradigm and figure women’s agencies. In doing so, it provides a theoretical context for the increasing number of contemporary literary works by Australian women writers that directly address gendered violence, an issue that has taken on urgent social and political currency. By analysing Australian women’s literary representations of gendered violence, this book rethinks victimhood and agency, particularly from a feminist perspective. One of its major innovations is that it examines mainstream Australian women’s writing alongside that of Indigenous and minoritised women. In doing so it provides insights into the interconnectedness of Australia’s diverse settler, Indigenous and diasporic histories in chapters that examine intimate partner violence, violence against Indigenous women and girls, family violence and violence against children, and the war and political violence.

Author : C. Bicks,J. Summit
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1137350415

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1500-1610 by C. Bicks,J. Summit Pdf

Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this new volume examines the diversity of early women's writing (from verse and songs to household records and recipes), offering a new paradigm for understanding women's shaping roles in the literary, religious, and political movements of the sixteenth century.

Author : Jos Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474275026

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The New Nature Writing by Jos Smith Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as 'The New Nature Writing'. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment-focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology and conservation practice. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place connects these two generations to show that the contemporary energy around the cultures of landscape and place is the outcome of a long-standing relationship between environmentalism and the arts. Drawing on original interviews with authors, archival research, and scholarly work in the fields of literary geographies, ecocriticism and archipelagic criticism, the book covers the work of such writers as Robert Macfarlane, Richard Mabey, Tim Robinson and Alice Oswald. Examining the ways in which these authors have engaged with a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to island spaces, Jos Smith reveals how they recreate a resourceful and dynamic sense of localism in rebellion against the homogenising growth of “clone town Britain.”

Author : Adrienne E. Gavin,Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3031572874

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British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 3 by Adrienne E. Gavin,Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton Pdf

This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 3: 1880s and 1890s analyses confluences and developments in women’s writing across two fin-de-siècle decades. Its 16 original essays reconsider fiction by canonical and lesser-known women writers, redefining the landscape of female authorship during these decades. By exploring women’s fiction within the social and cultural contexts of the 1880s and 1890s, the collection distils in terms of women’s writing how these decades discretely build on earlier work that is identifiably Victorian. The last two decades of the century, in distinctive ways, witnessed literary experiment, reflection on the limits of realism, and a fruitful sense of confusion about what was ending and what was about to begin.

Author : Francesca Sawaya
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812203264

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Modern Women, Modern Work by Francesca Sawaya Pdf

Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves. Sawaya challenges our long-standing histories of modern professional work by elucidating the multiple ways domestic discourse framed professional culture. Modernist views of professionalism typically told a racialized story of a historical break between the primitive, feminine, and domestic work of the Victorian past and the modern, masculine, professional expertise of the present. Modern Women, Modern Work historicizes this discourse about the primitive labor of women and racial others and demonstrates how it has been adopted uncritically in contemporary accounts of professionalism, modernism, and modernity. Seeking to recuperate black and white women's contestations of the modern professions, Sawaya pairs selected novels with a broad range of nonfiction writings to show how differing narratives about the transition to modernity authorized women's professionalism in a variety of fields. Among the figures considered are Jane Addams, Ruth Benedict, Willa Cather, Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Sarah Orne Jewett, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, and Ida Tarbell. In mapping out the constraints women faced in their writings and their work, and in tracing the slippery compromises they embraced and the brilliant adaptations they made, Modern Women, Modern Work boldly reenvisions the history of modern professionalism in the United States.

Author : Pamela S. Hammons,Brandie R. Siegfried
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108831154

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World-Making Renaissance Women by Pamela S. Hammons,Brandie R. Siegfried Pdf

This collection affirms the shaping authority of early modern women in literature and culture, evident well beyond their own moment.

Author : Vicki K. Janik,Del Ivan Janik,Emmanuel Sampath Nelson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313310300

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Modern British Women Writers by Vicki K. Janik,Del Ivan Janik,Emmanuel Sampath Nelson Pdf

A-Z entries analyze works, assess achievements, and list primary and secondary sources for 58 British women writers of the 20th century.