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From:Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (Issue 134)This essay argues that Emily and Charlotte Bronte remapped the Genesis creation myth onto Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, casting Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester and Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff as two very...
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From: Language and Literature[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Mellard provides detailed analyses of “August,” “Lightning,” and “Fall Song” from American Primitive. She shows how Oliver deployed an “iconographic” style, using spare images...
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From: Critical Texts[(essay date 1988) In the following interview, Lentricchia details his experiences at Duke, his editorship of the South Atlantic Quarterly, and his thoughts on the literary canon and critical practice. He suggests that...
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From: The Legacy of William Carlos Williams: Points of Contact[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Templeton focuses on the inclusion of American poet Marcia Nardi’s letters in Paterson, noting that previous scholars believed they served to emphasize the opposition between...
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From: War, Women, and Poetry, 1914-1945: British and German Writers and Activists[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Byles compares the World War I poetry of Britain's soldiers and female writers, focusing on a number of common themes: heroism, glory, and patriotism; pain and blood; rain; the...
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From: Nation[(review date 2 July 1988) In the following review of No Man's Land: The War of the Words, Abraham objects to Gubar and Gilbert's attempts to validate women's literature by placing it in the mainstream of...
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From: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature[(review date Fall 1995) In the following excerpt, Ardis praises Letters from the Front, but objects to its scanty coverage of the Harlem Renaissance and of black writers in general.] . ... As Gillian Beer has noted,...
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From: Male Rage, Female Fury: Gender and Violence in Contemporary American Fiction[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Maxwell analyzes several of Barthelme’s short stories and novels that explore the vulnerability of women in patriarchal society.] Woman as Textual/Sexual Prisoner: The Short...
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From: Sylvia Plath[(essay date 1998) In the essay below, first published in 1998, Bronfen presents a detailed investigation into the development and popularity of the many variations on the "Plath myth"--posthumous reconstructions of...
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From: Fay Weldon’s Fiction[(essay date 1998) In the following essays, Dowling alleges that “Weldon’s work is doubly subversive,” existing “at the intersection of postmodernism and feminism” and revealing her “progression from vociferous member of...
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From: Acta litteraria comparativa[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Kačkutė discusses how NDiaye’s Autoportrait en vert (2005; Self-Portrait in Green) and works by other contemporary women authors are in dialog with the tradition of women’s...
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From: Christian Science Monitor[(essay date 11 February 1980) In the following review, Miner praises The Madwoman in the Attic for "uncovering a discernible female imagination."] The grand success of this study is that it stimulates us to re-read...
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From: Children’s Literature Association Quarterly[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Francis argues that the garden in The Secret Garden is a female space, which has become a frequently theorized concept. She explains how Burnett understood and depicted the...
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From: The Lyrical Vision of María Luisa Bombal[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, the critic discusses recurring images in Bombal's novellas and stories that serve to portray the futile state of her women protagonists.] Imagination is a strong, restless...
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From: Critical Texts: A Review of Theory and Criticism[(interview date 1989) In the following interview conducted by Rosdeitcher, Gubar and Gilbert discuss a variety of topics such as their work, women writers, feminist criticism, their critics, and their writing...
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From: ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ: Studies in Honour of Robert Browning[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, De Koven notes that two different traditions of Modernism evolved in the works of male and female writers. In that context, she demonstrates how two early female writers not...
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From: South Atlantic Review[(essay date January 1991) In the following essay, Ryan argues that Housekeeping subverts the traditional American myth of wandering--as presented by such canonical male writers as Herman Melville and Mark...
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From: American Literature[(review date March 1980) In the following review, Kolodny praises The Madwoman in the Attic for opening up a new way to read women writers, but regrets that the authors, despite their fine chapter on Emily Dickinson, do...
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From: Ivy Compton-Burnett[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Gentile contends that Compton-Burnett's novels "resist the imposition of a christianised supertext or superscript" that enforces the subordination of women.] The narrative...
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From: Journal of English and Germanic Philology[(review date July 1989) In the following review of the first volume of No Man's Land, Blake contends Gubar and Gilbert ought more strongly to have stressed their argument that patriarchal forms are not embedded in...