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Author : Estella Lauter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253115027
"... impressive work of scholarship..." -- Exceptional Human Experience
Author : Thelma J. Shinn
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1986-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015012130889
Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content. She examines some seventy novels by twenty-four women writers and draws on a rich variety of secondary sources in literature, women's studies, science fiction/fantasy scholarship, and comparative mythology.
Author : Ruby Rohrlich,Elaine Hoffman Baruch
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Feminism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039818484
Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521365597
This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.
Author : Piero Boitani,Robert Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134859504
Bringing together twenty-five contributors from all over Europe, this volume represents the vitality and diversity of the current transcultural European dialogue on English studies. Topics addressed include: * the nature of the canon * the poetics of language * the representation of women and the notion of nationalism in post-colonial literature. The significance of this volume lies not only in the quality of the individual contributions but also in the fact that it marks an important turning point in the history of English studies in Europe.
Author : Purnur Ucar-Ozbirinci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Archetype (Psychology) in literature
ISBN : 0773447083
This study explores the process of mythmaking in plays written by women. By writing the lives of female writers and rewriting the literary characters, which have been created by male writers, women playwrights assume the role of a mythmaker. This study evaluates the constantly developing process of women's mythmaking/mythbreaking in Liz Lochhead's Blood and Ice, Rose Leiman Goldenberg's Letters Home, Bilgesu Erenus' Halide, Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale, Bryony Lavery's Ophelia, and Zeynep Avci's Gilgamesh. A mythmaker possesses the power to use the 'word', thereby possesses the power to control 'reality'. However, for centuries, women have been barred from generating their own myths, naming their own experiences, and controlling their own 'realities'. Male mythmakers prescribed the roles women were required to perform within the society. As myths are regarded as the source of collective experiences, analyzing how women have rewritten, revised, devised, and originated myths would thus permit women to reclaim the power to name, and hence to influence the so-called reality established by the patriarchy.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438133430
Arguably the most influential work to emerge from Spain's Golden Age, Don Quixote laid the groundwork for the Western literary canon and remains one of its major achievements.
Author : Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135221294
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Dr Debra D Andrist
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781782843283
Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and literature to contemporary social media, the contemporary term "selfie" was self-generated. The book illuminates some "selfies". This collection of critical essays about the fixation on the human self addresses a multi-faceted geographic set of cultures -- the Iberian Peninsula to pre-Columbian America and Hispanic America -- analysing such representations from medical, literal and metaphorical perspectives over centuries. Chapter contributions address the representation of the body itself as subject, in both visual and textual manners, and illuminate attempts at control of the environment, of perception, of behaviour and of actions, by artists and authors. Other chapters address the body as subjected to circumstance, representing the body as affected by factors such as illness, injury, treatment and death. These myriad effects on the body are interpreted through the brushes of painters and the pens of authors for social and/or personal control purposes. The essays reveal critics' insights when "selfies" are examined through a focused "lens" over a breadth of cultures. The result, complex and unique, is that what is viewed -- the visual art and literature under discussion -- becomes a mirror image, indistinguishable from the component viewing apparatus, the "lens".
Author : Barbara DellAbate-Çelebi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Feminism in literature
ISBN : 9781609620837
A feminist perspective of the myth of Penelope in Annie Leclerc's Toi, Pénélope, Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad and Silvana La Spina's Penelope
Author : Marian Womack
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3039118277
This collection of essays examines current trends in scholarly research on Spanish author Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000). It concentrates on the least explored areas of Martín Gaite's oeuvre, such as her collage artwork, the relationship between image and text in her work, and her close relationship with themes such as genre writing, the fairy tale, and textual/physical notions of space, as well as her personal theories on orality and narration. As we pass the tenth anniversary of her death, Martín Gaite continues to be an increasing focus of study, as scholars start to identify and comprehend the breadth and scope of her work. The essays in the volume complement previous studies of Martín Gaite's major works from the 1960s and 1970s by focusing largely on her later novels, together with in-depth analysis of the manuscripts and artistic materials that have been made available since her death.
Author : Brigitte Georgi-Findlay
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816515972
A study of American women's writings about the West between 1830 and 1930 reviews the diaries of the overland trails; letters and journals of the wives of army officers during the Indian wars; professional travel writings, and late 19th- and early 20th-century accounts of missionaries and teachers on Indian reservations.
Author : Robin Anne Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313054747
Works of science fiction and fantasy increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. This book examines women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy across a range of media and genres, such as fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, and music. The first volume offers survey essays on major topics, such as sexual identities, fandom, women's writing groups, and feminist spirituality; the second provides alphabetically arranged entries on more specific subjects, such as Hindu mythology, Toni Morrison, magical realism, and Margaret Atwood. Entries are written by expert contributors and cite works for further reading, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students and general readers love science fiction and fantasy. And science fiction and fantasy works increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. Older works demonstrate attitudes toward women in times past, while more recent works grapple with contemporary social issues. This book helps students use science fiction and fantasy to understand the contributions of women writers, the representation of women in the media, and the experiences of women in society.
Author : Stanford University. Center for Research on Women
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 047208061X
This collection of 16 essays discusses the broad relationship of women poets to the American literary tradition
Author : John R. Leo
Publisher : G. K. Hall
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026010897