Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
by Maddalena Bellentani
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 9, 2016
“Vecchie e nuove strade” è una raccolta di pensieri e poesie che esprimono emozioni e sensazioni legate a un lungo percorso di crescita, che si snoda dall’infanzia fino alla piena maturità.
BIOGRAFIA
Maddalena Bellentani è nata a Modena il 6 febbraio 1959. Sin da bambina ha coltivato...
by Andrew Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
In The Theorist's Mother one of our subtlest literary theorists turns his attention to traces of the maternal in the lives and works of canonical male critical theorists. Noting how the mother is made to disappear both as the object of theory and as its subject, Andrew Parker focuses primarily on...
by Sarah Jonckheere
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The book brings to light Neal Stephenson’s answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. The author of this book analyses the ethnocultural, technological, and ideological skeins that make up the biopolitical production of the self. The coming-of-age novel «The Diamond Age» reflects...
Spaces of Creation
Transculturality and Feminine Expression in Francophone Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Drawing links between the Francophone literatures of Canada, the French Caribbean, and North Africa, Spaces of Creation demonstrates that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societies can and do fuel creative acts on the part of women. The trying experiences of displaced mothers and their...
Dark Assemblages
Pilar Pedraza and the Gothic Story of Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book examines strategies of transformation (becomings, image-making, and the phantasmagoric) that figure in four stories and a novel by Gothic fiction writer Pilar Pedraza (Spain, 1951). While critics have long associated the Bildungsroman with Gothic fiction, this study takes a close look at...
by Ymatruz
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Journey is not enough to define the words this book have - it is more than that.* the coffee cries foul* is a solemn tussle between love and hate. In this book, Ymatruz explores the different heights and drama of human emotions. She tells the stories of mother's love, romantic union and shares other...
The Mind's Isle
Imaginary Islands in English Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Taking as its point of departure The Odyssey, Plato’s account of Atlantis and The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, this book examines the profound influence of these works on the development of island fiction as a genre specific to English literature. Close readings of island fictions from the past...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time the field could have been described with reasonable accuracy by two traditions: one that analyzed the production and distribution of popular fiction as commodities; and one whose proponents...
A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century
Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio A Study of Their Times and Works (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) Translated with a Foreword by Vincenzo Traversa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Any one wishing to investigate the literary development of the golden century of early Italian literature, the Trecento, must read Natalino Sapegno’s extensive writings on the subject, in particular his Storia Letteraria del Trecento (A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century). The original Italian...
Arms and the Woman
Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
*Arms and the Woman: Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance *by Francesca D’Alessandro Behr focuses on the classical reception in the works of female authors active in Venice during the Early Modern Age. Even in this relatively liberal city, women had restricted access...
Autobiographical Voices
Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women’s autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neale...
Winifred Gérin
Biographer of the Brontës
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The biographer Winifred Gérin (1901-81), wrote on all the lives of the four Brontë siblings. She also wrote about Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Fanny Burney. This book is based on her letters and on her unpublished memoir. Gérin’s childhood and youth, like the Brontës’, was...
Trading Women, Traded Women
A Historical Scrutiny of Gendered Trading
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
For the scholarly reader it is a truism that trade, in its widest sense (exchange, interchange, deal) is the basis of human society, it is part of the human interaction which is the very texture of society. The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss demonstrated in his seminal essay «The Elementary...
Translating German Novellas into English
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Translation of fiction is always interpretation. This book discusses the challenges facing translators of fictional works from German into English using as examples English translations of canonical German novellas by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theodor Storm, Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann and Franz...