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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “geetha ramanathan”
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  • Locating Gender in Modernism

    The Outsider Female

    by Geetha Ramanathan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    by Jane Austen ...
    Mansfield Park, considered to be Jane Austen's most ambitious novel, was first published in July 1814. The novel not only reflects Austen's superb narrative craftsmanship, but also her brilliant sensitivity to the human concerns of love,virtue and family.When shy,timid,ten-year-old Fanny Price is plucked from her large, lively and somewhat impoverished family in Portsmouth to live with wealthy ... Read more

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  • Villette

    Third and Last Novel of

    by Charlotte Bronte ...
    Series Book 3 - Bronte Sisters Collection
    Villette is an novel written by English author Charlotte Bronte. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel. The novel is initially set in the English countryside, and ... Read more

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  • Virginia Woolf

    The Will to Create as a Woman

    by Ruth Gruber ...
    This groundbreaking study of the work and legacy of Virginia Woolf is also an account of the intertwined lives of two extraordinary women.In 1932, Ruth Gruber earned her PhD—the youngest person ever to do so—with a stunning doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf. Published in 1935, the paper was the first-ever feminist critique of Woolf's work and inspired a series of correspondences between the ... Read more

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  • Seduction and Betrayal

    Women and Literature

    by Elizabeth Hardwick ...
    A vivid and provocative literary criticism of famous women writers from Virginia Woolf to Zelda Fitzgerald by a “gifted miniaturist biographer” (Joyce Carol Oates)The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ambiguous Discourse

    Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers

    Edited by Kathy Mezei ...
    Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection of twelve essays is the first book devoted to feminist narratology — the combination of ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Women's Lives

    The View from the Threshold

    by Carolyn Heilbrun ...
    Series series Alexander Lectures
    Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state of transition, women have always had a particularly close relationship to changeable terrain. In ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit

    Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation

    by Heike Missler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (1997). Branded by their pink or pastel-coloured book covers, chick-lit novels have been a highly successful and ubiquitous product of women's popular culture since the late 1990s.This study traces the evolution of chick lit ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth Bishop

    Her Poetics of Loss

    by Susan McCabe ...
    Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work—poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material—to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and sexual identity inform the experience of loss in the act of writing. Susan McCabe argues that Bishop counters modernist claims for an autonomous art ... Read more

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  • Victorian Women's Fiction

    Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual

    by Shirley Foster ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Toni Morrison

    Forty Years in The Clearing

    Edited by Carmen Gillespie ...
    Series series The Griot Project Book Series
    Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison’s work has become synonymous with the most significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time. The publication of Home (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play Desdemona affirm the range and acuity of Morrison’s imagination. Toni Morrison: ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • The Once and Future Queen

    Guinevere in Arthurian Legend

    by Nicole Evelina ...
    Guinevere’s journey from literary sinner to feminist icon took over one thousand years…and it’s not over yet.Literature tells us painfully little about Guinevere, mostly focusing on her sin and betrayal of Arthur and Camelot. As a result, she is often seen as a one-dimensional character. But there is more to her story. By examining popular works of more than 20 authors over the last one thousand ... Read more

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