Women Authors category: 700 books

En Las renegadas, Lina Meruane propone una nueva lectura para la poesía de Gabriela Mistral Lina Meruane selecciona, reordena con atrevimiento y prologa a la Premio Nobel de Literatura, permitiendo leer de nuevos modos una poesía que ostenta el rango de lo clásico. «La poesía dialogante...

Invitée au Louvre en 2006, Toni Morrison, avait choisi « l'étranger chez soi » comme thème d'exploration du musée pour lier les notions d'origine, d'appartenance et d'exil. Elle tomba en arrêt devant le tableau de Géricault, Le Radeau de la Méduse.

TRADUCTION INÉDITE, OUVRAGE BILINGUE ANGLAIS-FRANÇAIS. [...] Les uns après les autres elle crée ses sots, ses cuistres, ses mondains, son Mr Collins, son sir Walter elliott, sa Mrs Bennet. D'un claquement de fouet elle les cerne d'une phrase cinglante qui, tandis qu'elle s'enroule autour...

Je désirais en faire part depuis un certain temps et après la publication de mon dernier livre, Le Buddha Board, j’ai décidé que le moment était venu. Je crois sincèrement qu’il est important de communiquer avec les lecteurs afin de leur donner plus de réalité de qui je suis en tant qu’écrivaine...

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels have almost exclusively been examined as sagas illuminating history, race, culture, and gender politics. This gathering of eight essays by top scholars probes Morrison's novels and her growing body of nonfiction and critical work for the complex and potent aesthetic...

In un’epoca in cui la ricerca della visibilità e della fama personale sembra dettare lo spirito dei tempi, leggere la biografia di Charlotte Brontë è quanto mai illuminante. L’autrice del capolavoro Villette, di Shirley e Il professore, nonché di Jane Eyre, immediato successo all’epoca della...

With the purpose of introducing Marie Corelli to a new generation of readers and of reconsidering her works for generations familiar with them, ‘Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century’ demonstrates how provocative Corelli was as a public figure and how controversial and paradoxical...

In Edith Wharton’s works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which...

Mina Loy is recognised today as one of the most innovative modernist poets, numbering Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, Djuna Barnes and T.S. Eliot amongst her admirers. Drawing on substantial new archival research, this book challenges the existing critical myth of Loy as a 'modern woman' through...

Throughout its history, British television has found a place, if only in its margins, for programmes that consciously worked to expand the boundaries of television aesthetics. Even in the present climate of increased academic interest in television history, its experimental tradition has generally...

After Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated queer theory's academic emergence and charts the trajectories that continue to shape its continued evolution as a critical practice. It explores the interdisciplinary origins of queer studies and argues for the prominent role that literary...

The trials Anne Brontë experienced in her lifetime left her with a deep interest in the psychology of suffering. This study, which considers both her novels and her poetry, focuses on the exploration of suffering in her work by examining her anatomisation of the trials her characters face and the...

Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as: * The subject * Gender * Sex * Language * The Psyche With...

A gripping and original debut collection of short stories from Michigan writer Dorene O’Brien.