Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
by Victor Cousin
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Voici maintenant une toute autre personne, qui va nous ramener parmi les mêmes événemens, mais qui y portera un bien différent caractère. C’est encore une ennemie, ce n’est plus une rivale de Richelieu et de Mazarin. La noble femme dont nous allons retracer la...
Jacqueline Pascal
Premières études sur les femmes illustres et la société du XVIIème siècle
Language: French
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Extrait : "Dans un grand siècle, tout est grand. Lorsque, par le concours de causes différentes, un siècle est une fois monté au ton de la grandeur, l'esprit dominant pénètre partout : des hommes peu à peu il arrive jusqu'aux femmes ; et, dès que celles-ci en sont touchées, elles le réfléchissent...
Summary and Analysis of The Handmaid's Tale
Based on the Book by Margaret Atwood
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Handmaid’s Tale tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Margaret Atwood’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
The Heroine's Journey
Woman's Quest for Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 1990
This book describes contemporary woman's search for wholeness in a society in which she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing upon cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symbols and goddesses, and the dreams of contemporary women, Murdock illustrates the need for—and the reality of—feminine values in Western culture today.
Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing
Heuristic Implications of the Recto-Verso Effect
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
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 beyond selling the book. What we see on one side of the page—or in this case, the cover, (recto) controls...
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language
literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman
shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary
French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim
that these...
Borrowed Tongues
Life Writing, Migration, and Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
4
Translation as Allegorical Metafiction: Marlene Nourbese Philip and Jamaica Kincaid
Eva C. Karpinski
The last chapter examines translation as allegorical metafiction in Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Looking for Livingstone and Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother.These...
by Cynthia Flood
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
New wife and mother Julie is a woman struggling to find her place. Her dilemmas while modest feel harsh and reflect the ways in which women were once denied control over their own bodies. Her first steps toward independence bring great painand not only to herself. With sparing incisive prose Cynthia...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Kriminalliteratur bietet seit längerem ein Forum für die Behandlung schon ‚klassischer‘ postkolonialer Themen. So lassen sich die ProtagonistInnen vielfach als hybride Subjekte beschreiben, und die Suche nach ‚historischer Wahrheit‘ bedarf einer anderen Substruktion als der einfachen Antithetik...
Frankenstein and the Critics
Includes unabridged FRANKENSTEIN 1818
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
“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 in Indonesia, global temperatures dropped and a rainy, monsoon-like drizzle settled in over Northern Europe....
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The female body, with its history as an object of social control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of 20th-century literary texts, The Female Face of Shame explores the nexus of femininity, female sexuality, the female...
The Narcissus Theme from «Fin de Siècle» to Psychoanalysis
Crisis of the Modern Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The story of Narcissus, who falls in love with his own image in a spring, has fascinated writers and thinkers ever since Ovid first gave poetical form to the myth in his Metamorphoses. This study systematically investigates the elaborations of the theme at the turn of the century around 1900. It argues...
Jane Austen's Heroines (RLE Jane Austen)
Intimacy in Human Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
First published in 1984, John Hardy's important interpretation of Jane Austen's heroines breaks through the accepted tradition of viewing the author as merely a rational comedienne of manners. He argues instead that Jane Austen's greatness lies in her exploration of human relationships through the...
by Alexandra Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
"Whom do I tell when I tell a blank page?" Virginia Woolf's question is one that generations of readers and writers searching to map a creative life have asked of their own diaries. No other document quite compares with the intimacies and yearnings, the confessions and desires, revealed...