Search Results - "Woman"

"No other but a woman's reason" : women on Shakespeare, commemorating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's death /

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Sandra Cisneros's woman hollering creek

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The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer : Romance and Reform in Victorian England / by Galchinsky, Michael

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Madame de Staël, novelist : the emergence of the artist as woman / by Gutwirth, Madelyn

Called to civil existence : Mary Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman /

Subjects: “…Vindication of the rights of woman.…”
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Robin McKinley girl reader, woman writer / by Perry, Evelyn M.

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Nineteenth-century Italian women writers and the woman questions : the case of Neera / by Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…, Il castigo, Il marito dell'amica, La Regaldina, Teresa, Lydia and L'indomani -- Motherhood and the Maternal in Neera's Theoretical Production -- Neera's Mothers: L'amuleto, La vecchia casa, Il romanzo della fortuna and Duello d'anime -- 3 Neera the Verist Woman Writer -- Naturalism and Verismo -- Neera and the Veristi: Public and Private Exchanges on Verismo -- Teresa, a Verist Novel -- Neera's Post-Verismo Production: Symbolism and Benedetto Croce -- 4 Letter Writing: A Tool of the Trade for Italian Women Writers…”
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A woman killed with kindness and other domestic plays

Table of Contents: “…A chronology of the plays and their genre -- The tragedy of master Arden of Faversham -- A woman killed with kindness -- The witch of Edmonton -- The English traveller -- Appendix 1: the unknown author of Arden of Faversham -- Appendix 2: the date of The English traveller -- Explanatory notes -- Glossary.…”
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The Governance of Friendship : Law and Gender in the Decameron / by Sherberg, Michael

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Christopher Smart and satire 'Mary Midnight' and the midwife / by Wild, Min

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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender /

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Wilkie Collins interdisciplinary essays

Table of Contents: “…: Collins's stage adaptation of The woman in white / Janice Norwood -- Detecting buried secrets : recent film versions of The woman in white and The moonstone / Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier -- Afterword /Janice M. …”
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In quest of Tolstoy by McLean, Hugh, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…further comment on "God sees the truth, but waits" / with Gary R. Jahn -- A woman's place -- The young Tolstoy and the woman question -- Tolstoy and Jesus -- Rousseau's god and Tolstoy's god -- Claws on the behind: Tolstoy and Darwin -- A clash of utopias: Tolstoy and Gorky -- Hemingway and Tolstoy: a pugilistic encounter -- Foxes into hedgehogs: Berlin and Tolstoy.…”
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Michelangelo red Antonioni blue eight reflections on cinema / by Pomerance, Murray, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beyond the clouds -- Identification of a woman -- The Red Desert -- The dangerous thread of things -- The mystery of Oberwald -- Zabriskie Point -- The passenger -- Blow-up.…”
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Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the evolution of the casebook novel by Emrys, A. B., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Framed: a brief history of documents as narrative frames -- How he wrote his books: the apprentice years of framing testimony -- The woman in white: Collins launches the casebook novel -- Counterpoint witnessing in No name and Armadale -- The moonstone: Collins eclipses his first casebook -- Framed testimony in Collins's later novels -- The casebook after Collins -- Before Laura: Vera Caspary's early career and novels -- Laura: sensation roots of a noir novel -- Laura and Bedelia: "new woman" noir -- After Laura: Caspary's other casebook novels -- Caspary continues multiple focus -- Reframed: multiple focus in popular and literary texts -- Conclusion.…”
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Joseph Conrad and the anxiety of knowledge / by Freedman, William, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Ambivalent fabulist, indeterminate fables -- Forbidden knowledge and the saving illusion -- The lie of fiction: Heart of darkness -- The soft spot: Lord Jim -- A more dangerous revolution: Under western eyes -- Drowning in the romance of the shallows: The rescue -- Appendix: Woman and truth, the history of an association.…”
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Seeing Red : Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians / by Carpenter, Cari M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Alice Callahan's Wynema -- "A woman to let alone" : E. Pauline Johnson and the performance of anger -- Lost (and gained) in translation : language, anger, and agency in Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life among the Piutes -- Conclusion : an anger of their own.…”
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Bessie Head the road of peace of mind : a critical appreciation / by Johnson, Joyce

Table of Contents: “…The context of Bessie Head's fiction -- A portrait of the artist as a young woman : The cardinals -- Escaping "the heat of the sun" : When rain clouds gather -- The moon's sphere : Maru -- In a twilight zone : A question of power -- Dredging the river : The collector of treasures -- Sunrise at sunset : A bewitched crossroad.…”
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Fields watered with blood : critical essays on Margaret Walker /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: PART 1 The Life and Political Times of Margaret Walker -- "I Want to Write, I Want to Write the Songs of My People": -- The Emergence of Margaret Walker ii -- Maryemma Graham -- Black Women Writers at Work: -- An Interview with Margaret Walker 28 -- Claudia Tate -- Margaret Walker: Black Woman Writer of the South 44 -- Joyce Pettis -- Down from the Mountaintop 55 -- Melissa Walker -- The "Intricate Design" of Margaret Walker's "Humanism": -- Revolution, Vision, History 66 -- Minrose C. …”
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The American Lawrence / by Jenkins, Lee M. (Lee Margaret)

Table of Contents: “…Mawr," "The princess," and "The woman who rode away" -- Conclusion. Wilful women: Lawrence's three fates and Georgia O'Keeffe.…”
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