Women Authors category: 700 books
The Ladies of Llangollen
Desire, Indeterminacy, and the Legacies of Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
The Ladies of Llangollen is the first book length critical study of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement and five decades of “retirement” turned them into eighteenth century celebrities and pivotal figures in the historiography of female same-sex desire. Debates within...
Alice Munro’s Miraculous Art
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Alice Munro’s Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro’s writings. The volume covers the entirety of Munro’s career, from the first stories she published in the early 1950s as an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario to her final books....
by Melanie McCurdie
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Poetry. Beautiful words, long used to speak what we keep hidden at heart and let's be frank, woo the opposite sex,. Poetry comes in every genre, from vicious and bloody to heart wrenchingly eloquent and anything in between. Darker, The Dream Queen is a collection of runes and prose inspired by everyday life
Mothers and Other Clowns (Routledge Revivals)
The Stories of Alice Munro
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
First published in 1992, this is the first study of the work of Alice Munro to focus on her obsession with mothering, and to relate it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. A bizarre collection of clowning mothers parade across the pages of Munro’s fiction, playing practical jokes,...
Entertaining television
The BBC and popular television culture in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and ‘staid’, upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronising way. By focusing on a number of (often controversial) programme case studies – such as the soap opera, the quiz/ game show, the ‘problem’...
Mujeres en tránsito
Viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1830-1910)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Mujeres en transito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamerica (1810-1930) parte de la incidencia que los relatos de viaje (extranjeros y locales) tuvieron en la formacion discursiva de las sociedades sudamericanas. El texto revisa la limitada consideracion que ha recibido la escritura femenina dentro...
by Anthony Dawahare
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Contrary to previous studies of Tillie Olsen’s writing, Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature analyzes the impact of one of the most important philosophies of the last century, dialectical materialism, on the form and content of Olsen’s fiction. By revealing the...
by Ursula Tidd
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking work has transformed the way we think about gender and identity. Without her 1949 text The Second Sex, gender theory as we know it today would be unthinkable. A leading figure in French existentialism, Beauvoir's concepts of 'becoming woman' and of woman as 'Other'...
Narrativas de la Memoria
Aproximaciones desde el campo de los archivos y los lugares de la memoria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Este libro indaga sobre el papel de los archivos, las bibliotecas y los museos en la producción, conservación y transmisión de la memoria y los dispositivos culturales y comunicativos del recuerdo. Se pregunta además por los lenguajes, las narrativas, los actores, los lugares físicos y simbólicos,...
De l'amour et de l'audace
Femmes et romans au Québec dans les années 1930
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2018
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...
by Olena Komarnicka
Language: German
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Dieses Buch stellt das Leben und Werk der österreichischen Dichterinnen jüdischer Herkunft Mimi Grossberg, Margarete Kollisch, Gertrude Urzidil und Maria Berl-Lee im New Yorker Exil zwischen 1938 und dem Anfang der 1980er Jahre vor. Dank ihrer Werke, ihrer literarischen und kulturellen Tätigkeit...
Anerkennung und die Moeglichkeiten der Gabe
Literaturwissenschaftliche Beitraege
Language: German
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge einer interdisziplinären Tagung an der Universität Hamburg. Die Autoren und Autorinnen erproben das Konzept der «Anerkennung» (Honneth, Bedorf) als Analyseinstrument sozialer Interaktionen für die Literatur des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. Die Lektüren reichen...
Identitaet und Wissen in ausgewaehlten Werken Elie Wiesels und William Styrons
(Wissens-)Grenzen des Selbst
Language: German
Release Date: January 9, 2017
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...
by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Este ebook presenta "Obras de Emilia Pardo Bazán (Infidelidad + Un viaje de novios + Cuentos de amor + Los pazos de Ulloa)", con un indice dinámico y detallado. Esta edición incluye siguientes obras de Emilia Pardo Bazán: Infidelidad Un viaje de novios Cuentos de amor ...