Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Feminist

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Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its impact on establishing and subverting power structures. Although smell carries an enormous affective potential, it has been largely - but unjustly - overlooked in literary and cultural studies. Through her innovative close readings of works by authors such as Melville, Whitman, Equiano, Wilkins Freeman, Faulkner, Morrison, or Ellison, the author shows how smell stereotypes are used to discriminate against people and how odor references serve to undermine...

Dieses Buch analysiert die Modelle der biblischen Gestalten in der Prosa von Georg Trakl. Der Autor untersucht auch die Prosadichtungen, die in formaler Hinsicht den Charakter der Prosa aufweisen. Mit der Aufnahme der Gedichte erfasst der Autor Trakls Rezeption des Christentums im chronologischen Verlauf.

Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporary European contexts, including France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, and it considers how such representations affect the ways in which different individuals and groups negotiate motherhood as both institution and lived experience. It has a particular focus on literature, but it also includes essays that examine representations of motherhood in philosophy, art, social policy,...

Ein Dialog zwischen Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik findet trotz kritischer bildungspolitischer Entwicklungen fur das Franzosische bisher kaum statt. Um diese Zusammenarbeit zu etablieren, wahlten die Herausgeberinnen fur die Beitrage dieses Bandes ein innovatives Format: Es wurden Autorenteams aus Literaturwissenschaftlern und Fachdidaktikern gebildet. Als Gegenstand des Dialogs fiel die Wahl auf die Krimikultur Frankreichs, da roman und film noir, litterature und BD policiere dort einen herausragenden Platz im kulturellen Referenzsystem einnehmen. Jedes Team ubernahm ein zentrales...

Calling on a variety of genres, including chilren's novels, comics, picture books, among others, Dr. Elizabeth Marshall takes a critical approach to the images and written portralys of violence as witnessed by our children in literature. Graphic images of racial and gender inequality, neo-colonialism, subtexts of sexual violence and monstrosity saturate some of the most well-known and popular chilren's literature thourghtout recent history, and we have to wonder how this is shaping our children and our society. This work sets out on a mission illuminate some of this imagry and define how...

In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women's poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the phenomenon of genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of female authors as "feminine literature." Despite the efforts of leading thinkers, critics, and literary historians to erase women from the pages of literary history, Paliyenko shows how these female poets invigorated the debate about the origins of genius and garnered considerable recognition in their time for their...

Investigating Fascism offers an original approach to the historical novel and its connection to crime fiction. The study of contemporary novels set during Mussolini's rule, with specific attention to the topics of violence, justice, mystery, and personal identity, leads to a discussion about, among others, Leonardo Sciascia, Maurizio De Giovanni, Carlo Lucarelli, and Andrea Camilleri. This text is based on two intertwining approaches: (1) an analysis of the 'machine' of the novel, focused on such aspects as characterization, the construction of the setting, and the narrative use...