The Female Hero S Quest For Identity In Novels By Modern American Women Writers
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The Female Hero S Quest For Identity In Novels By Modern American Women Writers
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Author : Irene Neher
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 1989
The Female Hero S Quest For Identity In Novels By Modern American Women Writers written by Irene Neher and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Literary Criticism categories.
Around the turn of the century, a new kind of woman - the «female hero» - begins to appear in American literature. This «new woman», portrayed, in particular, in novels by modern women writers, often realizes herself through an especially close relation to nature («naturism»), as the use of «nature imagery», «moments of vision», and «dreams» discloses. This relation between woman and nature is striking in its ambivalent, progressive-regressive function with regard to the female protagonist's development: there is a continuous tension between this new woman's striving for the «public world» and her regression into the «private sphere», between her wish for freedom and her need for love. Thus, the «new woman» in her quest for identity becomes a link between the traditional «heroine» and the contemporary female protagonist.
New Literature On Women
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
New Literature On Women written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Women categories.
Cumulative Book Index
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Cumulative Book Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with American literature categories.
A world list of books in the English language.
Changing The Story
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Author : Gayle Greene
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1992-01-22
Changing The Story written by Gayle Greene and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-22 with Social Science categories.
"... Changing the Story... gives an excellent and well-informed account of the differences between the American, Canadian, British, and French attitudes towards feminism and feminist fiction and literary theory.... a very readable book... which reminds us that literature can change us, and that through it we can change ourselves." -- Margaret Drabble "A distinctive contribution -- clear, elegant, precise, and well-read -- to the feminist discussion of narrative, of Anglo/Canadian/white North American novelists, and to contemporary fiction. Greene tracks how feminist novelists draw upon, and negotiate with traditional narrative patterns, and how their critical approach implicates, and provokes, social change. The book brings us to an intelligent post-humanism which does not scant the social meanings of metafictional critique. And, in addition, this book remembers hope." -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis "Changing the Story is an invaluable guide to the feminist classics of the last three decades. This is cultural criticism at its best: engaged, re-visionary, and politically astute." -- Nancy K. Miller "Greene tells a very good tale about how feminist fiction emerged, developed, made changes in the world, and now threatens to wane." -- The Women's Review of Books "Her probing analysis... should captivate general readers as well as academics." -- WLW Journal "Changing the Story is an important work of feminist criticism certain to spark controversy within the feminist community." -- American Literature The feminist fiction movement of the 1960s--1980s was and is as significant a movement as Modernism. Gayle Greene focuses on the works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, and Margaret Laurence to trace the roots of this feminist literary explosion. She also speculates on the future of feminist fiction in the current regressive period of "post feminism."
Zaa
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Zaa written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with American literature categories.
International Books In Print
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
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The Feminization Of Quest Romance
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Author : Dana A. Heller
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-03-19
The Feminization Of Quest Romance written by Dana A. Heller and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends deemed universal, timeless, and essential to our understanding of the natural order that holds us and completes us in its spiral. Yet these myths and rituals do not fulfill her need for an empowering self-image nor do they grant her the mobility she requires to imagine, enact, and represent her quest for authentic self-knowledge. The Feminization of Quest-Romance proposes that a female quest is a revolutionary step in both literary and cultural terms. Indeed, despite the difficulty that women writers face in challenging myths, rituals, psychological theories, and literary conventions deemed universal by a culture that exalts masculine ideals and universalizes male experience, a number of revolutionary texts have come into existence in the second half of the twentieth century by such American women writers as Jean Stafford, Mary McCarthy, Anne Moody, Marilynne Robinson, and Mona Simpson, all of them working to redefine the literary portrayal of American women's quests. They work, in part, by presenting questing female characters who refuse to accept the roles accorded them by restrictive social norms, even if it means sacrificing themselves in the name of rebellion. In later texts, female heroes survive their "lighting out" experiences to explore diverse alternatives to the limiting roles that have circumscribed female development. This study of The Mountain Lion, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Housekeeping, and Anywhere but Here identifies transformations of the quest-romance that support a viable theory of female development and offer literary patterns that challenge the male monopoly on transformative knowledge and heroic action.
Through The Window Out The Door
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Author : Janis P. Stout
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Through The Window Out The Door written by Janis P. Stout and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This informative and provocative study focuses on the centrality of departure in the texts of five major American women novelists. An important moment in many novels and poems by American women writers occurs when a central character looks out a window or walks out the door of a house. These acts of departure serve to convey such values as the rejection of constraining social patterns, the search for individual fulfillment, and the entry into the political. Janis Stout examines such moments and related patterns of venture and travel in the fiction of five major American novelists of the 20th century: Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Anne Tyler, Toni Morrison, and Joan Didion. Stout views these five writers within a spectrum of narrative engagements with issues of home and departure—a spectrum anchored at one end by Sarah Orne Jewett and at the other by Marilynne Robinson, whose Housekeeping posits a vision of female transience. Through the Window, Out the Door ranges over an expansive territory. Moving between texts as well as between texts and contexts, Stout shows how women writers have envisioned the walls of physical and social structures (including genres) as permeable boundaries, drawing on both a rhetoric of liberation and a rhetoric of domesticity to construct narrative arguments for women's right to move freely between the two. Stout concludes with a personal essay on the dilemmas of domesticity and the ambivalence of departure.
The Madwoman In The Attic
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Author : Sandra M. Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-17
The Madwoman In The Attic written by Sandra M. Gilbert and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later. "Gilbert and Gubar have written a pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World
Whitaker S Books In Print
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Whitaker S Books In Print written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Bibliography, National categories.