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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"female writer"”.
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The Pink Papers
… of original fiction. The preface addresses the female writer and the female voice in fiction. "Broken Clock" and "Pink Paper" are the stories of two girls coping with endometriosis. "Normal Capacity" looks at the loss of a dream through the eyes of a first-year law student. The novel in …
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Ruimte en identiteit in die werk van “Gekleurde" skrywers met spesiale verwysing na E. K. M. Dido
… contributions, to the Afrikaans literature, by writers of ""Colour"", as marginalized writers, especially after 1990. It must be indicated that a special place in the thesis, chapter five, has been devoted to the female writer of ""Colour"", EKM Dido, and the invaluable contributions she has …
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Spiritual inspiration for women of faith: scripture and the struggle for hope
… Ostriker questions: “What is the relation of the female writer to the male text, the male story?.. And how, where, do I locate myself with respect to the looming male tradition of religion, myth, philosophy and literature.” Where can women find their own narrative within this male dominated story, …
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Noble virtues and rich chaines : patronage in the poetry of Amilia Lanyer
… text, one that celebrates and defends female community. While such readings have illuminated Lanyer's radical claims of gender equality, these interpretations tend to idealize Lanyer's utopian community, thereby effacing the historical roots of its construction. This study aims to …
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A study of the life and works of Blaze de Bury : a counter-narrative of a transcultural woman’s involvement in nineteenth-century European politics
This thesis presents evidence of female participation in nineteenthcentury discourses on European international politics, using the case study of the writer Baroness Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (1813?–1894). It argues that examining Blaze de Bury’s life and works, specifically through a …
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The edges of the Unsaid: Transgressive practices in the Fiction of Kathy Acker
… Acker, a radical and transgressive American female writer (1947-1997). The study maps the development of Acker's fiction by focusing on the political dimension of her aesthetic strategies. It explores the politics of plagiarism and appropriation; the subversive representation of gender and …
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‘Io fui, et sono, et sarò Margarita’: Margherita Costa as Virtuosa on the Literary Stage of the Seicento
… 1600–after 1657) was one of the most prolific female authors of seventeenth-century Europe. As a singer and rumoured courtesan, she made her way in the courts and theatres of Rome, Florence, Turin, Paris, Venice, and perhaps even Germany. Costa was a virtuosa performer on both stage and page: …
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VIRGINIA WOOLF'S USE OF THE PAST: THE EARLY CRITICISM TO "TO THE LIGHTHOUSE" (HISTORY, MODERNISM, WORLD WAR I)
… view." Many years later, she contended that the female writer must find her own sentence, "adapting it to the shape of her thought.".</p><p>The role of history in Woolf's fiction was, initially, to point her in directions she did not consciously intend to go. In the first two novels, the …
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Steel Riders : a novel for young adult readers and, An hermeneutical examination of Steel Riders
… I have contextualised my position as a white, female writer within a discourse of Aboriginalism as propounded by Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra (1991 ).
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Double bind: female subjectivity in selected works by Elfriede Jelinek and Anne Duden
… takes as its central focus constructions of female subjectivity in selected texts by the writers Elffiede Jelinek and Anne Duden. At the time of writing, few full-length studies which engage with this concept in texts by German women writers have been published. A clear preference is still …