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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Shirley Jackson"”.
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The Contemporary Female Gothic: Hauntings From the Home to the Colonial Landscape
… from the mid-20 th century to present, including Shirley Jackson, Gillian Flynn, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Toni Morrison, and Louise Erdrich. I discuss how the female Gothic genre, including both woman-authored texts and texts centered around women protagonists, has transformed over time to critique …
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Multiple, misaligned subjectivities : how representative twentieth century authors resolve the tension between American individualism and femininity.
… Antonia), Zelda Fitzgerald (Save Me the Waltz), Shirley Jackson (The Sundial, Hill House, and We Always Lived in a Castle) and Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping and Lila). The analysis examines how the characters experience the conflict, how it arises, and how they resolve the conflict, if, in …
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Messages for Girls: Looking at the Representation of Women's Short Fiction in American Literature High School Anthologies
… Gather, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Shirley Jackson, and Flannery O'Connor. The researcher then studied each writer and analyzed the short stories that were included in the Laurens County School System's adopted texts.</p> <p>The researcher discovered that since 1965 publishers have …
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The making of a battle royal: The rise of religious liberalism in Northern Baptist life, 1870-1920
… Ernest De Witt Burton, Gerald Birney Smith and Shirley Jackson Case. Chapter 5 examines the entrenchment of liberalism from 1900-1920 at Rochester, Colgate, Crozer, and Newton Seminaries. It examines the progressive presidents, George Edwin Horr, John Frederick Vichert, Joseph William Alexander …
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
… Mitchell (1937), The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959) and Sula by Toni Morrison (1973). Although not emblematic, consideration of these novels alongside one another offers an engaging narrative of the first 75 years of the last century. The texts provide a range of perspectives, …
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
… Mitchell (1937), The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959) and Sula by Toni Morrison (1973). Although not emblematic, consideration of these novels alongside one another offers an engaging narrative of the first 75 years of the last century. The texts provide a range of perspectives, …
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The Margins of the Market: Women Writers and the US Publishing Industry in the Long 1950s
… Ann Petry, Dorothy B. Hughes, Laura Z. Hobson, Shirley Jackson, Carson McCullers, and Dorothy West" represent a spectrum of authors published in both trade and mass-market fiction. In Chapter One, I look at author-publisher relationships as evidenced through material in the Houghton Mifflin …
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
… Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” (1892) and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lovely House” (1950) and The Haunting of Hill House (1959) as well as Francesca Woodman’s self-portraits that will be discussed further share one particular quality; they use the haunted house motif to express the …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
… editor Helen Gurly Brown and humor writer Shirley Jackson, into the feminist canon.</p><p>My fourth chapter examines what happens to the concepts of the modern woman and modern feminism in postmodern literature within a global framework. Rita Felski claims that the recent work of feminism …