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the middle-aged female body in contemporary women's fiction
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Paloge, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2007
- Description
- This book examines the texts of a number of English and American contemporary women's novels dealing with middle age. These novels of midlife chart the brief development of a female protagonist in early or late middle age as she achieves some measure of emotional and physical contentment or wisdom. Paloge clearly shows that these novels, which claim to confront in narrative terms the gender-bound implications of aging, generally reveal an unconscious denial of the truth of aging's significance for women, a consistent dishonesty on this score, and an ultimate refusal to confront the issues they claim to examine. The book explores fiction by such authors as Margaret Atwood, Joan Barfoot, Fay Weldon, and Joyce Carol Oates, in search of the middle-aged woman's body and its decline unto death. If the quest for happiness or meaning in most of these novels proves successful, it is despite, rather than because of, the middle-aged body.
fiction and automobile culture in twentieth-century America
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Clarke, Deborah
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 4 2007
- Thesaurus
- auto- en motorsport, romans, identiteit, technologie, woonomgeving, reizen, familierelaties, etniciteit, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Clarke argues that issues critical to twentieth-century American society, such as technology, mobility, domesticity, and agency, are repeatedly articulated through women's relationships with cars. When women take the wheel, family structure and public spaces are reconfigured and regendered. She describes women's fascination with cars from different perspectives: historical, psychological, economic, ethnic. Authors discussed include: Wharton, Stein, Faulkner, O'Connor, Morrison, Erdrich, Mason, Kingsolver, Lopez, Kadohata, Smiley, Senna, Viramontes, Allison and Silko.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Tally, Justine
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, romans, zwarte schrijvers, prijzen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is a widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and literary criticism, and her career as an editor and teacher.
the culture of divorce in the West since 1789
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Leydecker, Karl > (ed.)
- Creator
- White, Nicholas > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Akass, Kim
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 33 2007
- Thesaurus
- romans, films, televisie, kranten, echtscheidingen, relaties, liefde, normen, recht, politiek, vrouwbeelden, Europa, Rusland, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This study offers an account of the depiction of divorce across the northern hemisphere in novels, films, journalism and television. Scholars from the UK and North America contributed to this volume. The first contribution is on divorce in a number of early women's novels in Germany, 1784-1848. In most other western literatures, divorce becomes an important subject matter of fiction from the mid-nineteenth century. A relationship is found between the legal possibilites of divorce and the depiction of divorce in fiction. Other contributions are on literatures from the UK, France, Scandinavia, America, and Russia, and on twentieth century American films. A chapter is on the late twentieth century lesbian romance. The book ends with the subjects of separation and divorce in the contemporary American television series 'The Sopranos'.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lee, Hermione
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 WHA 2007
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, verhalen, romans, poëzie, essays, partners van, Verenigde Staten, Italië, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the American writer Edith Warton (1862 – 1937) .
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