Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Sidonie Smith
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780299158446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women's autobiography. Essays from 39 prominent critics and writers explore narratives across the centuries and from around the globe. A list of more than 200 women's autobiographies and a comprehensive bibliography provide invaluable information for scholars, teachers, and readers.
Author: Shari Benstock
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780807842188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies, t
Author: Martine Watson Brownley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780842027021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of women's autobiography, providing historical background and contemporary criticism along with selections from a range of autobiographies by women. It seeks to provide a broad introduction to the major questions dominating autobiographical scholarship today.
Author: Leigh Gilmore
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780801480614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first comprehensive feminist critique of autobiography as a genre, Leigh Gilmore incorporates writings that have not up to now been considered part of the autobiographical tradition. Offering subtle and perceptive readings of a wide variety of texts-- from the confessions of medieval mystics to contemporary works by Chicana and lesbian writers-- she identifies an innovative practice of "autobiographics" which covers the entire spectrum of women's self-representation.
Author: Sidonie Smith
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780472068142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharts the ways that woman artists have represented themselves and their life stories
Author: Sidonie Smith
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1452902542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tess Coslett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1134573626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very different levels of autobiographical activity going on in feminist studies, the contributions chart a movement from autobiography as genre to autobiography as cultural practice, and from the analysis of autobiographical texts to a preoccupation with autobiography as method.
Author: Trev Lynn Broughton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997-05-23
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0791497704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen's Lives/Women's Times reflects the growing interest in life-writing as a basis for both feminist theorizing and women-centered education. It discusses the many ways in which the study of autobiography can contribute to the theory, practice, and politics of women's studies as curriculum, and to feminist theory more generally. This volume is concerned with the application of theory to text—particularly with the assumptions and discourses of postmodernism—but also in exploring how general theories of the subject do not always fit comfortably with the specifics of autobiographical writing. It also recognizes the challenge women's autobiography offers to theory, taking us, in its complex weave of the personal, the political, and the theoretical, beyond the usual generic and disciplinary boundaries.
Author: Ellen Rooney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-07-06
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1139826638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.
Author: Domna C. Stanton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780226771212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese original essays comprise a fascinating investigation into women's strategies for writing the self—constructing the female subject through autobiography, memoirs, letters, and diaries. The collection contains theoretical essays by Donna Stanton, Sandra Gilbert, and Susan Gilbert, and Susan Gubar; chapters on specific issues raised by women's autographs, such as Richard Bowring's study of tenth-century Japanese diaries or Janel Mueller's on The Book of Margery Kempe; and annotated autobiographical fragments, including texts by Julia Kristeva, by a woman who became a czarist cavalry officer, and by a contemporary Palestinian poet. There are also chapters on the seventeenth-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi; Mme de. Sévigné; Mendelssohn's sister, Fanny Hensel; the black minister Jarena Lee; Virginia Woolf; and Eva Peron. The result is a "conversation" between writers and critics across cultural and temporal boundaries. Stanton's essay plays off Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Kristeva begins with a reading of de Beauvoir, while a self-published French woman writes to defend the joys of family life against the author of Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter.
