Fatal Desire: Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660-1720
ISBN: 9780801444470 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration to the early eighteenth century a period when for the first time female actors could perform in public. Jean I. Marsden maintains that the feminization of serious drama during this period is tied to the cultural function of theater. Women served as symbols of both domestic and imperial propriety, and so Marsden links the representation of women on the stage to the social context in which the plays appeared and to the moral and often political...
Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration...
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324,94 zł |
Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath
ISBN: 9780801473173 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the medieval West are haunted by the imperial Roman constructions of desire that emerge from Ovid's text. The Ars amatoria ironically proposes the erotic potential of violence, and this aspect of the Ars proved to be enormously influential. Ovid's discourse on erotic violence provides a script for Heloise's epistolary expression of desire for...
Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in med...
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Impossible Women
ISBN: 9780801486388 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Impossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. Reading through the lens of feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Valerie Rohy considers texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin, Henry James, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and Elizabeth Bishop.Addressing American ideologies of reproduction and representation, Impossible Women suggests that lesbian figures are made to symbolize both the unrepresentable and the failures of meaning inherent in language. Rohy traces the ways...
Impossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americ...
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172,63 zł |
Divided Fictions: Fanny Burney and Feminine Strategy
ISBN: 9780813116334 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the public recognition which followed the publication of her first novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity. Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak? In this study of Burney, Straub not only describes and analyzes the disturbing transition of a writer's self-awareness as a woman and a literary artist... Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney fam... |
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Excellence of Falsehood
ISBN: 9780813117645 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The only excellence of falsehood... is its resemblance to truth," proclaims a clergyman in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. He argues that romances are bad art; novels, he implies, are better. This clergyman's remarks -- repeating what literary and moral authorities had been saying since the late seventeenth century -- are central to Deborah Ross's discussion of romance characteristics in English women's novels. Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Fanny Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen did not take the clergyman's advice to heart. To... "The only excellence of falsehood... is its resemblance to truth," proclaims a clergyman in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. He argues... |
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Her Bread to Earn
ISBN: 9780813118178 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much criticism has posited an all-powerful patriarchy that effectively marginalized and disempowered women until well into the nineteenth century. In a startling revisionist study, Mona Scheuermann refutes these stereotypes, finding that the images presented by eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novelists are of functioning, capable women whose involvement with the getting, keeping, and investing of money provides a ubiquitous theme in the novels of the period. Her Bread to Earn focuses on the images presented by the major novels of the eighteenth and early nineteenth... Much criticism has posited an all-powerful patriarchy that effectively marginalized and disempowered women until well into the nineteenth century. ... |
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137,09 zł |
Fantasy, Forgery and Byron Legend
ISBN: 9780813119397 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Byron was -- to echo Wordsworth -- half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion." But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend. Accused of "treating women harshly," Byron acknowledged: "It may be so -- but I have been their martyr. My whole life has been sacrificed to them and by them." Those whom he spell bound often returned the favor in their own writings tried to... Byron was -- to echo Wordsworth -- half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die... |
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Vessels of Meaning
ISBN: 9780875802213 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fasick (English, Moorhead State U.) traces the progression of images of women's bodies through two centuries of English literature to construct a historical overview of class and gender relations as reflected in the English novel. She focuses on ways women have been depicted as possessing nurturing
Fasick (English, Moorhead State U.) traces the progression of images of women's bodies through two centuries of English literature to construct a hist...
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182,78 zł |
Anaïs Nin and the Remaking of Self: Gender, Modernism, and Narrative Identity
ISBN: 9780875802329 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work traces the development of Anais Nin's theories of gender and the creative self through her fiction, criticism and diaries. It frames its analysis with a Lacanian perspective that complements Nin's recreation of her personal history and interest in psychoanalysis and modernism.
This work traces the development of Anais Nin's theories of gender and the creative self through her fiction, criticism and diaries. It frames its ana...
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By Herself
ISBN: 9781555972974 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In "By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry" - edited by Molly McQuade - contemporary women poets reconsider their art form on their own terms, and the results are both telling and fascinating. This lively and richly varied collection offers more than two dozen essays that are uniformly original, challenging, playful, and ruthlessly individualistic.
Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In "By Herself: ... |
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Fictions Du Scandale: Corps Féminin Et Réalisme Romanesque Au Dix-Neuviéme Siécle
ISBN: 9781557531230 / Francuski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to Rogers, the nineteenth century was incapable of managing the feminine question and preferred to mythicize it. Everything that was related to it, especially feminine sexuality, was transformed into fiction. Thus women were saddled with the role of scapegoat.
According to Rogers, the nineteenth century was incapable of managing the feminine question and preferred to mythicize it. Everything that was related...
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Penelope Voyages: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side
ISBN: 9780801499135 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Lawrence explores not only the significance of gender for travel writing, but also the value of travel itself in testing the limits of women's social freedoms and restraints...
Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Lawrence explores not only the significance of gender for travel writing, ...
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Narrative Transvestism: An Essay on Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and H
ISBN: 9780801497704 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest canonical novels--including Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana and Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa--were written by men who assumed the first-person narrative voice of women. What does it mean for a man to write his "autobiography" as if he were a woman? What did early novelists have to gain from it, in a period when woman's realm was devalued and woman's voice rarely heard in public? How does the male author behind the voice reveal himself to readers, and how do our glimpses of him affect our experience of the novel? Kahn maintains that the answers to such questions lie...
Many of the earliest canonical novels--including Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana and Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa--were written by men who assume...
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Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens
ISBN: 9780801441431 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt's Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recipes even when the authors insist that they rely completely on their own experience in these matters. Like early modern "books of secrets," early...
For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These book...
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Prostituidas Por El Texto: Discurso Prostibulario En La Picaresca Femenina
ISBN: 9781557535276 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Prostituidas por el texto", by Enriqueta Zafra, looks at the role of prostitution in female picaresque novels and also in Don Quijote. While most of the authors of the works discussed are male, Zayas is included as a female author of these texts. Also included are etiquette manuals that offer rules ranging from how to be the perfect wife and daughter to advice on using make-up. Zafra also considers legal measures and moral treatises that define the boundaries of sin. Her analysis discusses the 'lesser evil' that the presence of prostitutes represents for society as well as the concern for...
"Prostituidas por el texto", by Enriqueta Zafra, looks at the role of prostitution in female picaresque novels and also in Don Quijote. While most of ...
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270,54 zł |
100 Years of Anne with an 'e': The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables
ISBN: 9781552382523 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I cast 'moral' and 'Sunday School' ideals to the winds and made my 'Anne' a real human girl.- - L. M. Montgomery
In 2008, Anne fans everywhere celebrated the 100th birthday of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables. Though Anne has always been recognized as a Canadian classic, her story is loved the world over. In 100 Years of Anne with an -e-: The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables, Holly Blackford has brought together an international community of scholars who situate L. M. Montgomery's novel in its original historical and literary context, discuss its timeless... I cast 'moral' and 'Sunday School' ideals to the winds and made my 'Anne' a real human girl.- - L. M. Montgomery
In 2008, Anne fans everywher... |
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Nobody's Angels
ISBN: 9780801482205 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Victoria's accession to the throne in 1837 coincided with the birth of a now notorious gender stereotype the "Angel in the House." Comparing the position of real women from the Queen of England to middle-class housewives with their status as household angels, Elizabeth Langland explores a complex image of femininity in Victorian culture. Langland offers provocative readings of nineteenth-century fiction as well as a rare glimpse into etiquette guides, home management manuals, and cookbooks. She traces the implications of a profound contradiction: although the home was popularly... Victoria's accession to the throne in 1837 coincided with the birth of a now notorious gender stereotype the "Angel in the House." Comparing the po... |
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From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey Through Myth and Legend
ISBN: 9780786448319 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many are familiar with Joseph Campbell's theory of the hero's journey, the idea that every man from Moses to Hercules grows to adulthood while battling his alter-ego. This book explores the universal heroine's journey as she quests through world myth. Numerous stories from cultures as varied as Chile and Vietnam reveal heroines who battle for safety and identity, thereby upsetting popular notions of the passive, gentle heroine. Only after she has defeated her dark side and reintegrated can the heroine become the bestower of wisdom, the protecting queen and arch-crone....
Many are familiar with Joseph Campbell's theory of the hero's journey, the idea that every man from Moses to Hercules grows to adulthood while battlin...
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The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
ISBN: 9780061958779 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A testament to inspirational women throughout literature, Erin Blakemore's exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors shows today's women how to best tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence, grace, vitality and aplomb. This collection of unforgettable characters--including Anne Shirley, Jo March, Scarlett O'Hara, and Jane Eyre--and outstanding authors--like Jane Austen, Harper Lee, and Laura Ingalls Wilder--is an impassioned look at literature's most compelling heroines, both on the page and off. Readers who found inspiration in books by Toni...
A testament to inspirational women throughout literature, Erin Blakemore's exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors shows t...
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68,67 zł |
Vies et Images Maternelles dans la Litterature Francaise du Dix-huitieme Siecle
ISBN: 9780729404280 / Francuski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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400,84 zł |