Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
Oesterreichische Literatur zwischen Moderne und Postmoderne
Zweite, verbesserte und erweiterte Auflage
Language: German
Release Date: July 8, 2019
Das Buch ist ein Wegweiser durch die österreichische Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Der Autor nutzt als stoffordnendes Prinzip seine Theorie des österreichischen Kultur-Codes, um sinnstiftende Zusammenhänge zu bilden, die das Zusammenwachsen einer Literatur zeigen, welche aus vielen Kulturtraditionen...
The Gothic Family Romance
Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. Such recurring tropes are examined in this pioneering study by Margot Gayle Backus to show how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth...
by S. Salih
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
This study considers cultural representations of "brown" people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the Abolition era onwards. Through close readings of contemporary fictions and "histories," Salih probes the extent to which colonial ideologies...
Wiedergaenger, Pilger, Indianer
Polen-Metonymien im langen 19. Jahrhundert
Language: German
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Die Beiträge des Bandes nehmen Rhetoriken von Ganzheit und Zersplitterung in den Blick, mit denen das geteilte und staatenlos gewordene Polen im langen 19. Jahrhundert imaginiert wird. Die entscheidende Rolle kommt dabei der Figur der Metonymie zu, die in der Forschung immer noch im Schatten ihrer...
Quando la lingua del Signore è di un genere diverso
“femminismo” e religione nella letteratura inglese tra XVII e XVIII secolo
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2013
In cosa consiste una rivoluzione culturale?
Le opere delle scrittrici presentate in questo volume – Mary Astell, Catherine Talbot, Hester Mulso Chapone e Sarah Robinson Scott – qui tradotte, in parte, per la prima volta in italiano, rispondono ad entrambe le domande: nulla può essere più rivoluzionario...
Raeume der Romania
Beitraege zum 30. Forum Junge Romanistik
Language: German
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Das Konzept des «Spatial Turn», in den 1980er Jahren durch Edward Soja geprägt, drückt das neue Bewusstsein aus, dass der Raum jeder Produktion von Wissen vorausgesetzt ist. Der vorliegende Sammelband knüpft an diese Bewegung von Wiederentdeckung und Aufwertung des Raumes an. Er bringt zum Vorschein,...
Women, Reading, Kroetsch
Telling the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are Exiles to Completed Field Notes....
Improper Modernism
Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. Through close readings of Barnes's manuscripts, correspondence, critically acclaimed and little-known...
Pop-Feminist Narratives
The Female Subject under Neoliberalism in North America, Britain, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
In Pop-Feminist Narratives, Emily Spiers explores the recent phenomenon of 'pop-feminism' and pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany. Pop-feminism is characterised by its engagement with popular culture and consumerism; its preoccupation with sexuality and transgression in...
Future Texts
Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies sketches several possibilities for future texts, those that imagine new pathways through the forms used to express contemporary questions of race, gender, and identity. Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies’ area of investigation...
Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory
Feminism and Retelling the Tale
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assumed the masculine psyche as the norm for human development and mental/emotional health, writers such as Anne Sexton, Olga Broumass, and Angela Carter were...
Wisdom's Feast
An Invitation to Feminist Interpretation of the Scriptures
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Woman Wisdom in Proverbs 9 invites any who want to learn her ways to come and eat at her table—an image for the rich and satisfying teaching that she offers. In this book Barbara Reid invites readers to this feast, drawing on women's wisdom to offer fresh new interpretations of biblical texts in...
Rumors from the Cauldron
Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
**An indispensable collection of essays reflecting on the historical and cultural relevance of feminist movements across the globe **
In these remarkably far-reaching writings, author and journalist Valerie Miner delivers a complex and engaging volume of essential reading. This book touches...
Unsettled Subjects
Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
During the 1980s much of the work of feminist theory aimed to fully account for issues of class, race, and sexuality that previously had been overlooked. Susan Lurie argues that this work tended to privilege questions of race and class at the expense of gender, and frequently, if inadvertently, left...