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From:Novels for Students"The Feminine in Winesburg, Ohio" in Studies in American Fiction. Vol. 9, No. 2, Autumn, 1981, pp. 233–44. [In the following excerpt, Rigsby argues that Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio is concerned with the meaning of the...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 162. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (autobiography) 1861; also published as Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed in Slavery, 1861, and The...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersMarilyn French's stated life goal is to "change the entire social and economic struture of western civliization, to make it a feminist world." Her fiction and essays make this goal clear. They are unabashedly feminist,...
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From: Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities[(essay date 2000) In the essay below, Lynch discusses the interplay between female identity and Irish identity in Johnston's novels.] Jennifer Johnston has shown herself throughout her long career as a novelist to be...
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From: Eire-Ireland[(essay date Spring 1986) In the following essay, Weekes traces how O'Faolain's No Country for Old Men portrays the relationship between women and the political situation in Ireland.] Seeking a theoretical model for...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionMaría Luisa Bombal offers many interpretative challenges to her readers and critics, not least because she is one of the few authors who has rewritten their own novels, in another language. Unusually, neither The House...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date Spring 1979) In the following excerpt, DuPlessis discerns a pattern of exploration of male-female relationships in H. D.'s life and work.] In her life's work, H. D. returned constantly to a pattern of...
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From: New Advocate[(essay date winter 1998) In this essay, Motes considers the treatment of sexual identity in young adult serial fiction paying particular attention to works aimed at female readers.] My four years as a seventh grade...
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From: Upstart Crow[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Cox analyzes the representation of female characters in the Henry VI plays, particularly Joan and Margaret.] In the Henry VI tetralogy, Shakespeare complicates conventional...
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From: Old Maids to Radical Spinsters: Unmarried Women in the Twentieth-Century Novel[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Doan examines Pym's portrayal of unmarried women as a reflection of the author's personal struggle to reconcile her own feelings about marriage and sexuality. Doan describes...
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From: Feminist Rereadings of Modern American Drama[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Pearlman studies what she terms Albee's bitter, negative, and harsh treatment of women in The Zoo Story , The American Dream , and The Sandbox .] 1 To reread Edward Albee's...
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From: Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation[In the following essay, Bono offers a feminist analysis of As You Like It and contends that the play “represent(s) both the masculine struggle for identity and a female 'double-voiced' discourse”—the latter implying...
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From: The Writer and Society: Studies in the Fiction of Gunter Grass and Heinrich BollBoll is a man of moral convictions, known to speak up whenever he perceives a weak point or an abuse in society. In his work Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1974) he exposes and overtly criticizes the abuse of...
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From: Annali d'Italianistica[(essay date 1989) In the following excerpt, Pickering-Iazzi compares the treatment of women and motherhood in novels by Fallaci and three other Italian writers.] For its poetical suggestiveness and socio-cultural...
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From: Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions[(essay date 1990) In the essay below, Van Dyke offers a thematic analysis of The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, arguing that Allen employs tribal concerns to discuss alienation, sexual identity, lesbianism, and, more...
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From: Mother Puzzles: Daughter and Mothers in Contemporary American Literature[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Bauer remarks on the themes of hope and despair within the mother-daughter relationship in "I Stand Here Ironing."] "I stand here ironing" begins the narrator in Tillie...
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From: In Faulkner and Gender: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1994[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Lahey considers the subjects of female identity and the balance between private and public space in "There Was a Queen."] "Letters which, like a Deus ex machina, intervene in...
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From: Cultural Contexts and Literary Idioms in Contemporary Irish Literature[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, Hargreaves discusses the search for identity in novels by Johnston, Julia O'Faolain, Molly Keane, and Edna O'Brien.] 'The self is the principle and archetype of orientation...
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From: Presenting Gender: Changing Sex in Early-Modern Culture[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Shaffer considers gender panic, or cultural anxiety over gender boundaries and sexualized bodies, at the end of the eighteenth century, and reads Mary Robinson's novel...
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From: Feminist Rereadings of Modern American Drama[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Timpane examines Williams's creation of female characters whose dynamic ambiguity resists the tendency toward idealization or oversimplification. Timpane contends that Williams...