In this work of feminist literary criticism the authors explore the works of many major 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of a confining patriarchal society and trace a distinctive female literary tradition. schovat popis
Sandra M. Gilbert Boeken
27 december 1936
Sandra M. Gilbert is een geprezen auteur van talrijke kritische werken en dichtbundels, evenals een memoire. Ze wordt erkend voor haar belangrijke bijdragen aan de literatuurwetenschap, waaronder haar mederedactie van een baanbrekende bloemlezing van vrouwelijke literatuur. Haar werk duikt vaak in de complexiteit van literaire expressie en de ervaringen van vrouwelijke auteurs.
Still Mad
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A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women's movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it
Originally published in 1928 this classic story by Virginia Woolf was modelled on her friend Vita Sackville-West's personality. Orlando chooses her own sexual identity as she lives through 3 centuries as both a man and a woman.
Theory and History of Literature - 24: The Newly Born Woman
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Published in France as Le jeune née in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément put forward the concept of écriture feminine, exploring the ways women’s sexuality and unconscious shape their imagination, their language, and their writing. Through their readings of historical, literary, and psychoanalytic accounts, Cixous and Clément explore what is hidden and repressed in culture, revealing the unconscious of history.