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“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 S……続きを見る

Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle……続きを見る

In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation……続きを見る

INTRODUCTION I. ー Pourquoi l’on ne se marie pas. II. ー L’ouvrière. III. ー La femme lettrée. IV. ー La femme ne vit pas sans l’homme. PREMIÈRE PARTIE De l’éducation I. ー Le soleil, l’air et la lu……続きを見る

Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and… brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew Ross investiga……続きを見る

Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary performs a ground-breaking intervention by uncovering the relationship between literary cloth-working women and migration in a range……続きを見る

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay first published on 24 October 1929 based on a series of lectures Virginia Woolf delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Camb……続きを見る

The front covers of books written by Algerian women serve as the primary source of investigation in Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women Writers. These covers have implications that extend bey……続きを見る

The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural value……続きを見る

Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's workーpoetry, prose, and selected unpublished materialーto reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid……続きを見る

Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tips for successful understanding and writing all in o……続きを見る

This study examines contemporary narratives by Arab-American, South-Asian American, Chicana, and Cuban-American women writers. Gomaa argues that the disparate histories of Arabs, South Asians, Chica……続きを見る

[...] Alfonsina Storni es un caso emblemático por su estratégica ubicación en el ambiente –está en el centro– y porque su poesía es bastante leída en la época, es más, tiene cierto público que le da……続きを見る

¿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……続きを見る

La sociedad argentina de principios del siglo XX mostró signos claros de dinamismo y modernidad, especialmente en sus principales centros urbanos. Como parte de esta sociedad moderna y movilizada, e……続きを見る

Violet Oakley: An Artist's Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (1874–1961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an ill……続きを見る

“A generous and pleasurable collection. . . . Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page. . . . [Lessing is] a superb essayist: lucid, wise, knowledgeable, and witty.”ー Booklist In……続きを見る

"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." ーNew York Times From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacyーone of boozing, passion, writing, and survival.……続きを見る

"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her crit……続きを見る

Remember that book you read at that time in your life when everything seemed to be going crazyーthe one book that brought the world into focus and helped soothe your raging teenage angst? 続きを見る

From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemaking, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved i……続きを見る

"A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world." ー K……続きを見る

A collection of essays from some of the best writers in America, about what it means to be a fully functional, and sometimes fully dysfunctional, 21st–century, born–in–the–USA Latina Tired of the tr……続きを見る

Who is really controlling the pen? Editor Daniel Halpern was profoundly curious about the creative processーso he asked fifty-five world-renowned writers to briefly muse on "the fictional persona be……続きを見る

The Pulitzer Prize winning author -- “an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) -- offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical……続きを見る

Women's Experimental Writingconsiders six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Kat……続きを見る

Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features……続きを見る

One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of po……続きを見る

There are many different ways to say 'I.' This book examines the ways in which four contemporary women writers (HZl_ne Cixous, Assia Djebar, Gis_le Halimi, and Julia Kristeva) have written their aut……続きを見る

The Stronger Sex, a study of the women in the fiction of Lawrence Durrell, argues that Lawrence Durrell envisioned a new woman, self-confident, free of male domination, and able to serve, direct, an……続きを見る