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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Women authors"”.
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Textual Politics: Women Authors Rewrite the Enlightenment, 1790--1805
… study discusses four British, French, and German women authors from the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries who wrote novels and plays that responded quite explicitly to texts written earlier in the eighteenth century by major male writers. The choice of texts by Karoline von …
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Modern Homes? An Analysis of Irish and British Women's Literary Constructions of Domestic Space 1929-1946
… notably absent in the works of Irish and British women authors from 1929-1946. On the contrary, in these texts, domestic space has multiple functions, not least of which is its usefulness in exploring concepts of modernity, including the consequences of industrial scale warfare on civilian life. …
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Sowing Seeds Of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use Of Fairy Tales And Folklore
… Seeds of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use of Fairy Tales and Folklore" focuses on the fictional works of nineteenth-century British women authors, analyzing their use of fairy-tale and folklore motifs to criticize social mores, in particular those surrounding …
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Reconsidering early modern English spiritual autobiography. Quaker women's self-writings in 17th-century England
This thesis examines the development of Quaker women’s self-representation in autobiographical writing in the early Quaker movement. It investigates the collective and communitarian value of women Friends’ autobiographical writing, as well as the theory that Quaker women authors had created a …
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A Revision of Family and Domesticity in Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and The Hours
… who focus on the political intent of American women authors during the nineteenth century, the findings of family historians who examine families of the 1950s, and the work of anthropologist Kath Weston, I argue that Michael Cunningham represents domesticity in ways that promote readers' …
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A Revision of Family and Domesticity in Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and The Hours
… who focus on the political intent of American women authors during the nineteenth century, the findings of family historians who examine families of the 1950s, and the work of anthropologist Kath Weston, I argue that Michael Cunningham represents domesticity in ways that promote readers' …
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Communication in the Sciences: Genre and Gender Differences in Scientific Writing
… there are differences in writing by men and women in these two genres. This question is motivated by observed gender differences in participation in science. Hyland’s 2005 metadiscourse model is used to identify and examine relevant linguistic choices in the sample set. This model considers …
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Material culture and domestic texts: Textiles in the texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps
… production, consumption, and containment enables authors to configure experimental domestic forms. Mid-nineteenth-century authors used textiles---including their inherent "textility" and feminine associations---to play out new domestic configurations in response to exigencies of economy, race, …
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The social affirmation of "woman" in selected texts by Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker
… Inevitably then, in the writing of male authors, patriarchal assumptions about the role of men and women in society are immutably embedded. However, some women authors had, in the latter part of the twentieth century begun to challenge this male bastion. Their literature signals a shift …
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The Margins of the Market: Women Writers and the US Publishing Industry in the Long 1950s
… publishing world that shaped the experiences of authors and impacted the works making it to market. I examine how women authors and the field of publishing responded to the increasingly conservative culture from the end of WWII through the early 1960s. In addition to looking at how women authors …
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Recovering an archive of women’s voices : Durga Prasad Nadir’s "Tażkirāt ul-Nissāy-e Nādrī"
… (biographical compendium) to engage with women authors of Urdu and Persian poetry over the ages. The text was published between 1876 and 1884 in Delhi, India, and collates biographical information on women poets from India and Iran along with samples of their poetry. In this report, I …
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Silencing and silenced women in Edith Wharton's non-ghost short stories.
… (1885 to 1937), Edith Wharton portrayed American women weathering a tremendous sea change in society's expectations of them. In the 1960s the unsealing of Wharton's personal papers encouraged scholars to assign new value to Wharton's short fiction. Focusing on the ghost stories, feminist critics …
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"""Dann ist und Bleibt eine Korrespondenz lebendig"" Romantic Dialogue in the Letters and Works of Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Bettina Brentano von Arnim, and Karoline von Günderrode"
… I analyze letters and other writing by three women writers during the Romantic period: Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Bettina Brentano von Arnim, and Karoline von Günderrode. I investigate interpersonal communication in the traditional form of the dialogue as it developed between these women authors …
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Cunning Authors and Bad Readers: Gendered Authorship in "Love in Excess"
… novel reveals connections between discourses of authorship and gender. Male and female characters, along with the narrative voice, employ the same strategies to author texts that engage the reader’s desires. Variations in these strategies are linked to but not determine by the author’s gender. I …
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The Portmanteau Papers
… to the narrative patterns employed by period authors. By rereading and recreating selected elements of narrative implicit in Hogarth’s prints, the text of The Portmanteau Papers animates the tensions between modern and period prose forms. In doing so, the novel considers scholarship’s …
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Realism, sentimentalism, and popular fiction
… regional literature dominated by the presence of women authors is that it often fails because it cloaks itself in the guise of realism but retreats into the ideology and conventions of the feminine and sentimental. This study attempts a historical, cultural, and generic reading of Freeman's …
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Migrant masculinities and spatial transformation in recent South African and Zimbabwean fiction
… South African and Zimbabwean fiction written by women authors. Using various postcolonial theories dealing with masculinity, I argue that the authors of the selected novels suggest that changes in the performance of masculinity by their main male characters are linked with movement between …
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La Jungla Amanecida de Ardalani: Mysticismo y Erotismo en la Lirica Latino Americana
The lyric work of Mexican-border poet Elvia G. Ardalani overcomes cultural, chronological and natural frontiers. The author, Professor of Peninsular and Latin American literature at the name o f university, Edinburg Texas, has published three books of poetry: “Por recuerdos viejos, por esos …
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Educational Encounters: (Re)Writing Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil and the U.S.
… Focusing primarily on Afro-descendant and women authors—including James Weldon Johnson, Rachel de Queiroz, Romeu Crusoé, Ralph Ellison, Lygia Fagundes Telles, and Angela Jackson—I analyze how shifts in educational access during the 1910s–1970s influenced these writers’ portrayals of …
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