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Engendering Romance: Women Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition, 1850-1990
ISBN: 9780300055573 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engrossing book describes how four twentieth-century women writers--Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, and Grace Paley--have inherited and adapted the classical tradition of American romance fiction.
Emily Miller Budick argues that this tradition, exemplified by the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison, is inherently skepticist, questioning whether and how we know reality. It is also sharply critical of the patriarchal bias of American culture, which is understood by these writers as a way of... This engrossing book describes how four twentieth-century women writers--Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, and Grace Paley--have inh...
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425,21 zł |
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Mythmaking and Metaphor in Black Women's Fiction
ISBN: 9780312065324 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This original critical study examines the significance of mythology for contemporary black women writers. It illustrates the narrative strategies used to elucidate themes of mythmaking in such writers as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Toni Cade Bambara, and Paule Marshall. She identifies the influences of different mythologies - European, African, Black American, and Native American - on black women writers who have appropriated them and reveals the skill with which they have woven them into the worlds of their own experiences.
This original critical study examines the significance of mythology for contemporary black women writers. It illustrates the narrative strategies used...
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382,84 zł |
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The Girl: Constructions of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women
ISBN: 9780312173531 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The image of The Girl in contemporary fiction by women today stands in stark contrast to configurations of girlhood in earlier fiction. No longer banished to the realms of the Victorian "marriage or death" plots, girls in contemporary fiction embrace new challenges and freedoms while still struggling with plots centered on their bodies, societal limitations, and the price for freedom and escape. This unique collection tackles the contemporary forces at work on both the girls in fiction created by women and the writers themselves. The Girl investigates the legacies of expectation, competing...
The image of The Girl in contemporary fiction by women today stands in stark contrast to configurations of girlhood in earlier fiction. No longer bani...
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382,84 zł |
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George Eliot and Italy
ISBN: 9780312176518 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study considers George Eliot's novels in relation to Dante and to nineteenth-century Italian culture during the Italian national revival and shows how these helped shape her fiction. Thompson argues that Eliot was able to draw selectively on a powerful Risorgimento mythology of national regeneration and that her engagement with the work of Dante Alighieri increases steadily in her later novels, where the Divine Comedy becomes a sustaining metaphor for Eliot's meliorist vision and for her theme of moral growth through suffering.
This study considers George Eliot's novels in relation to Dante and to nineteenth-century Italian culture during the Italian national revival and show...
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382,84 zł |
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Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction
ISBN: 9780312210953 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. Chopin's short stories, Wharton's novellas, Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which Gilman warns of the dangers of the sexually transmitted disease are compared. There are also essays on ethnicity in the work of Chopin, Wharton's New England stories, Gilman's innovative use of genre and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' on film. All three writers are still popular in US classrooms in particular. This paperback edition includes a new...
A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. ...
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382,84 zł |
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Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the 'Angel in the House'
ISBN: 9780312212179 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An interdisciplinary study of Victorian women of faith as portrayed in the fiction and non-fiction of the period. The book explores how novelists, biographers and other writers depicted religious women, with special reference to the influence of the ideal of the 'Angel in the House' as embodied in Coventry Patmore's poem of that name. Among those whose work is explored are George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, George Moore and Anne Bront�as well as hymnwriters, missionary biographers, non-conformist obituarists and artists of the Aesthetic Movement.
An interdisciplinary study of Victorian women of faith as portrayed in the fiction and non-fiction of the period. The book explores how novelists, bio...
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382,84 zł |
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Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900
ISBN: 9780312215361 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers. Eighteen essays consider the gendered codes and genres developed by sophisticated poets. The feminine subject and marketing, a woman's tradition, lesbian desire, war, race, colonial experience, religion and science are themes of the collection, featuring, as well as the familiar Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, other poets such as 'L.E.L.', Felicia Hemans, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster.
The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers. Eigh...
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574,29 zł |
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Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction
ISBN: 9780312217266 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction considers one of the major British novelists of the post-war years in a new light, arguing that Murdoch's compulsive plots and characters are strongly motivated by the question of the past. Drawing on many of her key works, and providing the first analysis of her 'first-person retrospective' novels as a separate group within the larger body of her fiction, the book also considers Murdoch's relation to key currents within twentieth-century thought, like modernism. postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.
Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction considers one of the major British novelists of the post-war years in a new light, arguing that Murdoch's comp...
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382,84 zł |
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Edith Wharton's Social Register: Fictions and Contexts
ISBN: 9780312225575 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a role in her social fictions. She understands her world in binary terms of belonging and exile, of spatial boundaries and exclusions, and tribal behaviour. She applied that intellectual framework to the struggle to preserve the Old World from the territorial and cultural threat of the Great War. In linked thematic sections, Claire Preston considers ideas of tribal inclusion and banishment, buccaneer figures whose money-energy overcomes tribal demarcations, and...
Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a role in her social fict...
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382,84 zł |
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Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic
ISBN: 9780312226664 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. The study is based upon the work of fifteen different writers and includes novels by Allende, Atwood, Carter, Head, Morrison, Weldon, Winterson and Wittig.
This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. The study is based upon the wor...
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382,84 zł |
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Representing Lives: Women and Auto/Biography
ISBN: 9780312226671 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This eclectic and comprehensive collection of essays explores contemporary issues and debates concerning women's auto-biographical representations from a range of disciplinary perspectives. With authoritative contributions from a number of prominent figures in the field of women's auto/biography, as well as innovative new voices, the volume offers a broad and contemporary lens on the issues and debates relevant to the act of representing women's lives.
This eclectic and comprehensive collection of essays explores contemporary issues and debates concerning women's auto-biographical representations fro...
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382,84 zł |
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Changing Ireland: Strategies in Contemporary Women's Fiction
ISBN: 9780312227104 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the past twenty-five years, Ireland has seen an explosion of women's fiction--hundreds of published works that reimagine the inherited literary traditions and the social contexts of women's lives. Changing Ireland examines women's use of historical fiction, exile literature, Northern war narratives, speculative fiction, and classic "realism," and looks at the local Irish forms of international women's genres like the romance novel and feminist fiction.
During the past twenty-five years, Ireland has seen an explosion of women's fiction--hundreds of published works that reimagine the inherited literary...
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191,40 zł |
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Deferrals of Domain: Contemporary Women Novelists and the State
ISBN: 9780312228118 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary female novelists tend to portray the relationship between women and the state as profoundly negative, in contrast to various constructions in current feminist theory. Martine Watson Brownley analyzes novels by Margaret Atwood, Paule Marshall, Nadine Gordimer, and Margaret Drabble to explore the significance of this disparity. The book uses literary analysis to highlight elements of state power that many feminist theorists currently occlude, ranging from women's still minimal access to state politics to the terrifying violence exercised by modern states. At the same time, however,...
Contemporary female novelists tend to portray the relationship between women and the state as profoundly negative, in contrast to various construction...
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191,40 zł |
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Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship
ISBN: 9780312229214 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not In Sisterhood investigates an important transitional moment in the history of U.S. women's writing: the uneasy shift from the 19th-century model of the "lady author" to some new but undefined alternative. The careers of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather, together with that of their friend and peer Zona Gale, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama, reveal several different strategies for negotiating this unknown terrain. While Gale made her feminist politics an integral part of her successful novels and plays, Wharton and Cather publicly denied any interest in gender issues or...
Not In Sisterhood investigates an important transitional moment in the history of U.S. women's writing: the uneasy shift from the 19th-century model o...
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191,40 zł |
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Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing
ISBN: 9780312230982 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judith Herman has noted that 'the most common post-traumatic disorders are those not of men in war but of women in civilian life.' How have women survived, both individually and collectively, in the face of unimaginable trauma? In this important new book, Suzette A. Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. The literary testimonies of Colette, Hilda Doolittle, AnaIs Nin, Janet Frame, Audre Lorde, and Sylvia Fraser provide startling evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder precipitated by rape, incest, childhood sexual abuse,...
Judith Herman has noted that 'the most common post-traumatic disorders are those not of men in war but of women in civilian life.' How have women surv...
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267,98 zł |
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Hysterical Fictions: The 'Woman's Novel' in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780312235291 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The woman's novel is a term used to describe fiction which, while immensely popular among educated women readers, sits uneasily between high and low culture. Clare Hanson argues that this hybrid status reflects the ambivalent position of its authors and readers, as educated women caught between identification with the male-gendered intellectual culture and a counter-experience of female embodiment. Through six case studies, the representation of a 'mind/body problem' is explored in the fiction of Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret Drabble, A.S.Byatt and Anita...
The woman's novel is a term used to describe fiction which, while immensely popular among educated women readers, sits uneasily between high and low c...
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382,84 zł |
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New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism
ISBN: 9780312236274 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siecle . This informative monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the relationship between first-wave feminist literature, the nineteenth-century women's movement and female consumer culture. The book expertly places the debate about femininity, feminism and fiction in its cultural and socio-historical context, examining New Woman fiction as a genre whose emerging theoretical discourse prefigured concepts central...
The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siecle . This informative mono...
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382,84 zł |
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Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction
ISBN: 9780312238759 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite its typically regressive associations with homesickness, the longing associated with nostalgia may also function progressively as a vehicle for imaginatively 'fixing' the past in two senses: securing and mending or repairing. Considering fiction by two British and six American women writers of different generations and ethnicities, this study explores tensions between home and exile, insider and outsider, longing and belonging, loss and recovery. Rubenstein argues that nostalgia functions narratively as a strategy for interrogating not only notions of home, homesickness, and homeland...
Despite its typically regressive associations with homesickness, the longing associated with nostalgia may also function progressively as a vehicle fo...
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191,40 zł |
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The Musical Woman: An International Perspective Volume II: 1984-1985
ISBN: 9780313235887 / Angielski / Twarda / 583 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of "The Musical Woman" continues the long-neglected task of documenting the full scope of participation by women in every facet of the music world. The time period covered is the 1982-1983 season through 1984-1985; forecasts have been included for 1985-1986. The work was compiled from volumnious primary source materials, including newsletters of composer organizations, data from foreign music information centers, publishers' announcements, concert programs, newspapers, and other music periodicals, and the composers themselves. "The Musical Woman" provides a comprehensive... This volume of "The Musical Woman" continues the long-neglected task of documenting the full scope of participation by women in every facet of the ... |
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510,21 zł |
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Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women's Romance Fiction
ISBN: 9780313239151 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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382,20 zł |
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