Book Description
A stunning array of women writers from the U.S. and abroad examine the intimate and politically charged act of writing.
Author : Jocelyn Burrell
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781558614673
A stunning array of women writers from the U.S. and abroad examine the intimate and politically charged act of writing.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Dutton Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Unpublished printer's proof of the title: (Woman writer): occasions and opportunities.
Author : Mary Poovey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 1985-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226675289
"A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of." So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Mary Poovey's study of the struggle of three prominent writers to accommodate the artist's genius to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideal of the modest, self-effacing "proper lady." Interpreting novels, letters, journals, and political tracts in the context of cultural strictures, Poovey makes an important contribution to English social and literary history and to feminist theory. "The proper lady was a handy concept for a developing bourgeois patriarchy, since it deprived women of worldly power, relegating them to a sanctified domestic sphere that, in complex ways, nourished and sustained the harsh 'real' world of men. With care and subtle intelligence, Poovey examines this 'guardian and nemesis of the female self' through the ways it is implicated in the style and strategies of three very different writers."—Rachel M. Brownstein, The Nation "The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer is a model of . . . creative discovery, providing a well-researched, illuminating history of women writers at the turn of the nineteenth century. [Poovey] creates sociologically and psychologically persuasive accounts of the writers: Wollstonecraft, who could never fully transcend the ideology of propriety she attacked; Shelley, who gradually assumed a mask of feminine propriety in her social and literary styles; and Austen, who was neither as critical of propriety as Wollstonecraft nor as accepting as Shelley ultimately became."—Deborah Kaplan, Novel
Author : Lyde Cullen Sizer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807848852
This study explores the lives of nine Northern American female writers of the Civil War period. It examines how, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. The author shows how they and others used their writing to make sense of topics like war, womanhood and slavery.
Author : George Plimpton
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 9781860465864
In this collection of interviews taken from The Paris Review, sixteen of the world's great women writers speak about their work, their colleagues and their lives. Women Writers at Work revisits classic interviews with Rebecca West and Simone de Beauvoir along with exchanges with Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Nadine Gordimer, showing how different generations have found their voices. They talk about where they write.They talk about how they write. Most importantly they discuss why and what they write. As Margaret Atwood points out in her bracing introduction, the 'Women Writers' here cannot be put into a box, neatly labelled WW. The label should probably read WWAAW, 'Writers Who Are Also Women.' What unites them is less their gender than their commitment to the craft of writing and to life. Each interview is accompanied by a biographical and critical profile, a photograph of the writer and a facsimile manuscript page.
Author : Carolyn G. Helibrun
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802082289
Heilbrun looks at the biographies and memoirs of women who have altered the face of literature and the world, and reveals the ways in which feminism has changed our perceptions of their lives.
Author : Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781851322510
Mapping the changes that have occurred in Irish literature over the past fifty years, this volume includes twenty-one writers, poets, and playwrights from the North and South of Ireland, who tell their own stories. They are funny, tragic, angry, philosophical, but all are vivid personal accounts of their experiences as women writing during a pivotal period in the history of Ireland. With a foreword by Martina Devlin, and an introduction by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the anthology includes essays by Cherry Smyth, Mary Morrissy, Lia Mills, Moya Cannon, Aine Ní Ghlinn, Catherine Dunne, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Mary O'Donnell, Mary O'Malley, Ruth Carr, Evelyn Conlon, Anne Devlin, Ivy Bannister, Sophia Hillan, Medbh McGuckian, Mary Dorcey, Celia de Fréine, Máiríde Woods, Liz McManus, Mary Rose Callaghan, and Phyl Herbert.
Author : Eavan Boland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 1996-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393346463
In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other.
Author : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1635570964
A genre-defying memoir in which Lara Feigel experiments with sexual, intellectual and political freedom while reading and pursuing Doris Lessing How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a mother in a way that no other novelist had done. At a time when she was dissatisfied with the conventions of her own life, Feigel was enticed by Lessing's vision of freedom. Free Woman is essential reading for anyone whose life has been changed by books or has questioned the structures by which they live. Feigel tells Lessing's own story, veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made. At the same time, she scrutinises motherhood, marriage and sexual relationships with an unusually acute gaze. And in the process she conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom. This is a genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.
Author : Janet Sternburg
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393320558
Published to high praise--"groundbreaking . . . a landmark" (Poets and Writers)--this was the first anthology to celebrate the diversity of women who write.