Longman Anthology of World Literature by Women, 1875-1975
Author: Marian Arkin
Publisher: New York : Longman
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 1334
ISBN-13:
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Swedish Women's Writing 1850-1995
Author: Helena Forsas-Scott
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2000-12-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1847141978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a survey of women's writing in Sweden, from the beginnings of the struggle for emancipation in the 1850s to the present day. These writers are seen within the political, cultural and economic context of women's lives. Modern critical currents are also assessed and Swedish feminist criticism is considered alongside the French and American traditions.
Last Witnesses
Author: Erica Harth
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003-05
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1403962308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a rich collection of personal histories from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds which takes readers inside the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Clackamas Chinook Performance Art
Author: Victoria Howard
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2022-03
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1496230418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited by Catharine Mason, Clackamas Chinook Performance Art pairs performances with biographical, family, and historical content that reflects Victoria Howardʼs ancestry, personal and social life, education, and worldview.
The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic Literature and Society
Author: Richard G. Hovannisian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-04-13
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780521573979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book successfully defies the view that The Thousand and One Nights is not worthy of serious literary debate.
Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s
Author: Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1134802374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation. Playwrights include: * Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden) * Amelai Pincherle Rosselli (Italy) * Elsa Berstein (Germany) * Elizabeth Robins (Britain) * Marie Leneru (France) * Alfonsina Storni (Argentina) * Hella Wuolijoki (Finland) * Hasegawa Shigure (Japan) * Rachilde (France) * Zinaida Gippius (Russia) * Djuna Barnes (USA) * Marita Bonner (USA) This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.
Plain and Ugly Janes
Author: Charlotte M. Wright
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1135706026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970s, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power-heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive acc
Rosamond Lehmann and Her Critics
Author: Wendy Pollard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1351149741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of contemporary and later critical responses to the work of the novelist Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) offers an original approach to twentieth-century literary history by foregrounding the cultural and commercial fields in which Lehmann's writing was situated. Wendy Pollard examines the effect recent developments in literary theory and movements from modernism to feminism have had on Lehmann's literary reception. She also considers the interpolation of a damning third category between te and popular culture, namely middlebrow; a widening gender divide in readership; controversies within book reviewing; changes in the publishing world; and the introduction of popularist means of book marketing. While considering the general privileging of male authors from the 1920s to the 1950s, Lehmann's most prolific period, Pollard argues that her novels have been unfairly subjected to specific forms of neglect, and their exclusion from many academic comparative studies is due to a diversity of form and content that can also be considered their strength.
Japanese Women Writers
Author: Chieko Mulhern
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1994-10-10
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen have made many important contributions to Japanese literature since the Heian period (794-1192), when Murasaki Shikibu wrote her prose masterpiece, The Tale of Genji. Even earlier, though documentation is scant, women actively participated in Japanese letters as poets. This reference is a guide to the work of Japanese women writers from centuries ago to the present day. The volume includes 58 alphabetically arranged biographical and critical profiles of these women. The book profiles women writers who are considered mainstream writers in Japan and who have attracted attention in the West, chiefly through translations of their works and critical scholarship on their writings. Each entry discusses the subject's life, career, major works, and works in English translation. A bibliography concludes each article. While most of the women are poets, novelists, or authors of classical narrative fiction, the book also includes entries for premodern diarists, modern dramatists, television script writers, and movie scenario writers. An extensive bibliography and chronology conclude the volume.
