Christina Rossetti was considered the ideal female poet of her time. Her poetry was devotional, moral, and spoke of frustrated affection.
Dolores Rosenblum presents a fresh reading of Rossetti s works and places them in the context of her life. Rosenblum shows that what was ostensibly devotional, moral, and loveless, was actually what Luce Irigaray calls mimetism, a subtle parody and subversion of the male tradition of literature.
Only with the coming of feminist criticism can Rossetti be meaningfully re-evaluated. Rosenblum calls Rossetti s works the poetry of endurance, stating...
Christina Rossetti was considered the ideal female poet of her time. Her poetry was devotional, moral, and spoke of frustrated affection.
How do college writing teachers learn new ways to teach? Most current composition research focuses almost exclusively on student writers, ignoring the role the teacher plays in classroom development. Here is the first book to focuson college writing teachers and the ways in which they are affected by graduate rhetoric pedagogy courses.
Wendy Bishop observed teachers enrolled in a doctoral seminar, titled "Teaching Basic Writing," and then conducted case studies of five of those teachers in their college writing classrooms to investigate how their teaching practices changed and how...
How do college writing teachers learn new ways to teach? Most current composition research focuses almost exclusively on student writers, ignoring ...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her "Sonnets from the Portuguese." "Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism "proposes that we attend to the ways that women poets from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries have both echoed and transformed the literary and erotic conventions that strongly influenced their fates as women, wives, and lovers.Mary B. Moore analyzes and provides context for love sonnet sequences by Italian, French, English, and American women poets in the light of current knowledge concerning attitudes towards women at...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her "Sonnets from the Portuguese." "Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers a...
Although the early Quakers disclaimed political intent, their messianic objectives to align human society with the teachings of Jesus often put them at odds with government in seventeenth-century England.
Although the early Quakers disclaimed political intent, their messianic objectives to align human society with the teachings of Jesus often put them a...
