Feminist Criticism category: 436 books

Avec Nana, on en a pour son argent. Cette P... si peu respecteuse des conventions a réussi à se faire une place à part dans la littérature. A l'instar des personnages du roman, les critiques littéraires sont paratagés entre l’attirance, la fascination et, d’un autre côté, le mépris, l’avanie...

Si l’entre-deux-guerres constitue le point de bascule de la littérature canadienne-française dans la modernité, cela s’explique en partie par la présence de plus en plus marquée des femmes dans la vie littéraire. Dans les années 1930, nombreuses sont celles qui publient des romans, souvent...

A transplanted American, Katherine Morrison has long been fascinated with the attempts of Canadians to articulate how their culture differs from that of their southern neighbor. Examining three hundred years of cultural traditions, Morrison takes the reader through the historical, political and sociological...

Das Buch betrachtet das Lebenswerk des Reiseagenten und Schriftstellers Carl Stangen und seinen Beitrag zur Geschichte des Fremdenverkehrs und der Reiseliteratur. «Carl Stangen’s Reise-Bureau», oft als das «erste deutsche Reisebüro» bezeichnet, trug zur Fundierung von Gesellschaftsreisen und...

Wie soll die Erinnerung an den Holocaust zukünftig gestaltet werden? Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Frage untersucht die Autorin Wissen und Identität in den Werken Wiesels und Styrons. Sie entwirft ein Analysemodell, das verschiedene Formen des Wissens sowie Ebenen und Methoden der Wissenstransformation...

«Chi mi conosce sa ch'io sono scontrosa come un'ortica e che le mie temerità non sono fatte che di parole scritte». In una lettera del '25, di ritorno da Parigi, Amalia Guglielminetti descriveva così il suo carattere. E probabilmente mentiva almeno in parte, poiché sapeva bene che la sua vita...

“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld my man completed ..." The summer of 1816 was by all accounts a cold and wet one. After the April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa, part of what is now Indonesia, global temperatures dropped and a rainy, monsoon-like...

«Chi mi conosce sa ch'io sono scontrosa come un'ortica e che le mie temerità non sono fatte che di parole scritte». In una lettera del '25, di ritorno da Parigi, Amalia Guglielminetti descriveva così il suo carattere. E probabilmente mentiva almeno in parte, poiché sapeva bene che la sua vita...

For Willa Cather, "the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts." The whole legacy of Western civilization stood on the far side of World War I, and in the spiritually impoverished present she looked back to that. To that she directed readers of these essays, declaring that anyone under forty years...

Da una lettura a una vita: gli scrittori italiani raccontano del mondo e di sé partendo da un libro. Questa è "PassaParola". Come ci si trasforma in persone adatte al mondo, capaci di capire se stesse, di capire gli altri, capaci di amare qualcuno e di essere amate? Come si sopravvive...

Romance and the Erotics of Property examines contemporary popular romance from a number of different points of view, probing for codes and subtexts that sometimes exploit and sometimes contradict its surface tale of romantic attraction, frustration, longing, and fulfillment. Cohn argues that a full...

Kate Chopin’s major works were two short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Her important short stories included "Desiree's Baby", a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana (published in 1893), "The Story of an Hour" (1894), and "The...

¿Qué hace que un texto se transforme en clásico?, sin dudas, entre las respuestas posibles, podemos decir: la vigencia de sus ideas. En todos estos años La doble voz se fue transformando en un libro de consulta obligada para leer la producción poética desde una perspectiva de género. Al decir...

"Gina" is a trilogy; plays on women written in remembrance of Henrik Ibsen... Gina is a brilliant painter who is not aware of her talent.All she wants is to be who she is and to love. She finds herself in the middle of an irreversible, terrifiying crime while searching for love.Is she going to be defined by her crime or is she going to be loved?