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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Winston, Janet
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, romans, literatuur
- Description
- This is a concise and authoritative guide to Virginia Woolf's classic text 'To the Lighthouse' (1927), including a brief plot summary and introduction to characters and a guide to critical reception. 'To the Lighthouse' is one of Virginia Woolf's most widely read and commonly studied novels.This guide introduces its context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife. It sets the book in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure, providing exemplary close readings, presenting an up-to-date account of its critical reception. It includes points for discussion, suggestions for further study and an annotated guide to relevant reading.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ghillebaert, Françoise
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- FR 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- romans, schrijvers, androgynie, identiteit, 19e eeuw
- Description
- Sandian heroines swirl around men in their disguises like moths around candle flames. However, as this book illustrates, the disguise is not an instrument to seduce men but rather to assert the heroines' true selves. The portrayal of female and androgynous protagonists in Rose et Blanche (1831), Indiana (1832), Lélia (1833/39), Gabriel (1839), Consuelo (1842), and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (1844) is a metaphor to demonstrate the continuity of identities before and after the disguise as George Sand stipulates in her theory of the ménechme. Disguise in George Sand's Novels explores the maturation process of Romantic and artistically inclined heroines and highlights the spiritual meaning of the disguise as a rite of passage for the birth of a new type of protagonist: spiritual, self-assertive, and dedicated to erasing gender inequality and helping the poor.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mitchell, Angelyn > (ed.)
- Creator
- Taylor, Danille K. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Beavers, Herman
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, romans, poëzie, populaire cultuur, meisjesboeken, schrijvers, zwarte schrijvers, slavernij, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, naslagwerk, bundel
- Description
- This book covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide a guide to a tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters.
an MFS reader
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Linett, Maren > (ed.)
- Creator
- Hussey, Mark > (afterw.)
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, romans, essays, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bloemlezing
- Description
- The interdisciplinary examinations in this anthology explore the major novels of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), her key essays, and the literary tropes that unify her writings. The essays in the first section look at Woolf's acute analyses of literary imagining: her explorations of the ways fact, vision, and language interact to create both perceived reality and its representation in fiction. In the second part, the contributors focus on Woolf's social vision, considering how groups respond to traumatic events and treating both the hazards and the comforts of community. The third section brings together seven of the most challenging accounts of Woolf's ethical and political imagination, reflecting upon her representations of other minds, in particular the minds of those who differ from her according to early twentieth-century notions of class, race, and empire.
contemporary criticism on Janet Frame
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cronin, Jan > (ed.)
- Creator
- Drichel, Simone > (ed.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Drichel, Simone
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- PAC 54 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, romans, poëzie, bundel
- Description
- This collection of essays draws on critical frameworks to explore fresh ways of looking at Frame's fiction, poetry, and autobiography. At the same time, the essays plug into the energy of Frame's work to challenge our thinking within and beyond these frameworks. Frameworks offers a perspective on Frame studies today, showcasing its major concerns as well as heralding new narratives for the decade ahead. Mindful of preceding Frame criticism, these essays use their contemporary vantage-point to recast seminal questions about the relationship between Janet Frame's work and its critical contexts.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Paul, Georgina
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- DUI 54 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, romans, schrijvers, fascisme, Duitsland, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Modernity tends to privilege masculine-connoted characteristics and has generated a conceptualization of human subjectivity emphasizing these qualities. Yet the costs of this conception of human selfhood are high, and at modernity's most acute moments of historical crisis, writers and artists can be seen turning to feminine-connoted figurations -- nature, tradition, myth and spirituality, intuition, relationality, flux. Feminist critiqueshave viewed cultural history as male-generated and 'phallocentric,' in need of a feminine corrective. The innovation of this book is to examine these two gendered perspectives side by side, investigating the culturally symbolic significance of gender in post 1945 German language literature via a sequence of paired readings of major, thematically related texts by male and female authors, Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch and Christa Wolf, Elfriede Jelinek and Rainald Goetz: and Heiner and Christa Wolf.
a life
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Birkett, Jennifer
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 JAM 2009
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, romans, journalisten, suffragettes, socialisme, feminisme, anti militarisme, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- From her childhood in Whitby to her long old age in Cambridge, the life of Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986), novelist, autobiographer, and political activist, spanned almost the whole of the twentieth century. In her long life as writer and activist, president of wartime PEN (the association of Poets, Essayist, Novelists) committed to the values of freedom and social justice, she fought to reconcile the conflicting forms of emergent modernity. This biography recovers the aspirations and the disappointments of the generation of socialists that was Class 1914. Alongside the narrative of Jameson's life, and the experiences as daughter, wife, and mother, the book explores her concern with issues of culture and society, cultural memory, and cultural landscapes, her fascination with aesthetic form and the relation of writing to politics, her insight into the materiality of words, and her persistent probing of the nature of the writing subject. It draws on unpublished archive material and brings new research on neglected areas of cultural history into conjunction with literary-critical analyses of Jameson's novels and studies of her journalism and essays. With extensive bibliography of her work.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Asquith, Mark
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- romans, schrijvers, receptie, films, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Contains a biography of the author, analysis of the texts, a summary of their popular and critical reception, and discussion of the film adaptation of Brokeback Mountain and its reception.
representation, identity and religion of muslim women in Indonesian fiction
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Arimbi, Diah Ariani
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- ZO AZ 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, romans, islam, identiteit, hoofddoeken, feminisme, Indonesië
- Description
- In this book the author looks at the work of four contemporary Indonesian Muslim women writers: Titis Basino P I, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy en Helvy Tiana Rosa. The book examines how gender is constructed and in turn constructs the identity, roles and status of Muslim women in Indonesia and how such relations are portrayed in fiction.
writings on authorship by American women of the nineteenth century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Boyd, Anne E. > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, romans, canons, 19e eeuw
- Description
- This book presents a spectrum of nineteenth—century American women's writings on the themes of authorship and creativity. These works reflect the fears, desires, and motivations of female authors, as well as the opportunities and obstacles they encountered as professional writers. Boyd includes representative samples from a diverse range of writers. These writings, some of which are reprinted here for the first time, challenge prevailing notions about women and authorship in the nineteenth century and shed light on the relationship between women's lives as writers and their evolving roles in the larger, male—dominated literary community.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- romans, schrijvers, etniciteit, reisliteratuur, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book focuses on twentieth century women's narratives of travel and adventure, deliberately expanding the Transatlantic concept to include Canada, South America, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. The book problematizes the crisscrossing of the Atlantic throughout, noting culturally resonant literature that imagines 'views from both sides' and reconfigures the 'in-between' space of the Atlantic. The author explores the way in which the space of the Atlantic-and women's space work together in the construction of meaning in transatlantic texts, engaging with a range of genres, from novellas and novels to essays, memoirs, and travel literature. Nella Larsen's Quicksand is read alongside Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and in relation to constructions of the exotic: Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation is explored in relation to memoirs of travel, such as Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train. Anne Tyler's transatlantic The Accidental Tourist is compared to her latest transpacific Digging to America and Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune.
Volume I : gender and race in French abolitionist writing, 1780–1830
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Contributor
- Van Zwoll, Lisa
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- FR 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- slavernij, abolitionisme, schrijvers, literatuur, romans, witte vrouwen, taal, etniciteit
- Description
- This book explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antislavery writing by or about French women in the French revolutionary period. The authors explore the theoretical, linguistic, and literary complexities involved when white writers, especially women, took up their pens to denounce the injustices to which blacks were subjected under slavery. Attention is paid to Olympe de Gouges, Germaine de Staël and on the factors involved in translating gender and race, as well as works in translation. A section on abolitionist narrative, poetry, and theater has been added with a number of new translations.
essays on the filmic sensibility of the novels
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Monaghan, David
- Creator
- Hudelet, Ariane
- Creator
- Wiltshire, John
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- romans, films, schrijvers, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Description
- Jane Austen's novels are loved because they possess a comedic power that is often conveyed through the singular voice of the narrators. Film adaptations, however, have often been unsatisfactory because they lack or awkwardly render features, particularly the voice of the narrators. This book argues for a new approach that begins with a reading of the novels that emphasizes their auditory and visual dimensions. Building on their examination of Austen's inherently cinematic features, the authors then develop productive new readings of the films.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Beauman, Nicola
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 TAY 2009
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, romans, verhalen, briefwisseling, Engels, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- The first biography of the other Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975, born Betty Coles), English novelist of twelve novels and four volumes of short stories.