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“maureen ahern”

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  • A Rosario Castellanos Reader

    by Rosario Castellanos ...
    Translated by Maureen Ahern ...
    Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to language and cultural nuance, many of these works appear here in English for the first time, allowing ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Villette is a novel by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. The novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as its acute tracing of Lucy's psychology, particularly Brontë's use of Gothic doubling to ... Read more

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  • The Angel of His Presence

    by Grace Livingston Hill ...
    The Angel of His Presence by Grace Livingston Hill A sweet Christian fiction. JOHN WENTWORTH STANLEY stood on the deck of an Atlantic liner looking off to sea and meditating. The line of smoke that floated away from his costly cigar followed the line of smoke from the steamer as if it were doing honest work to help get Mr. Stanley to New York. The Sea in the distance was sparkling and ... Read more

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  • Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin

    Writers Running Wild in the Twenties

    by Marion Meade ...
    In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.Capturing the jazz rhythms and desperate gaiety that defined the era, Meade gives us Parker, Fitzgerald, Millay, and Ferber, ... Read more

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  • The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers

    by Kenney ...
    One of the most fascinating comments often made about Dorothy l. Sayers is that she wrote “real” novels. Catherine Kenney considers why Sayers mysteries tend to strike astute readers this way, and in so doing, suggests her place not only in the history of detection, but in the larger tradition of the English novel which she admired. Gaudy Night, for example, bears striking similarities to ... Read more

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  • Women of the Left Bank

    Paris, 1900-1940

    by Shari Benstock ...
    A "valuable and intriguing" study of the lives and works of literary women who shaped expatriate Paris (NPR).Focusing on some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century, from Anais Nin to Alice B. Toklas and beyond, this book shines new light on how gender was experienced and expressed during an important moment ... Read more

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  • Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity

    by Lorraine York ...
    For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status. This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the active agents working in concert with her, including her assistants and office staff, her publicists, her literary agents, and her editors. Lorraine ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars

    Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories–An Anthology

    by Sandra Bark ...
    This book is certain to appeal to the millions of Jewish women interested in Jewish literature and the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Francine Prose, and Grace Paley. Beautifully packaged, it is an ideal Mother's Day or Bat-Mitzvah gift.This volume contains translations of Yiddish stories from eminent scholars--including an Isaac Bashevis Singer story that has never before been published in English- ... Read more

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  • A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm

    by Catriona McAra ...
    Series series Studies in Surrealism
    In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012). McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship, repositioning Tanning’s writing at the centre of her entire creative oeuvre and focusing on a little-known short story "Abyss," a gothic-flavoured, ... Read more

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  • House/Garden/Nation

    Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women

    Translated by Robert Carr ...
    by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    How ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinista’s electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorro, located at the center. The election signaled the end of one transition and the beginning of another, with Woman somewhere on the border between the neo-liberal and marxist projects. It is such transitions that Ileana Rodríguez takes up here, ... Read more

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  • At Home Inside

    A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry

    by Elisabeth Petry ...
    Ann Petry (1908-1997) was a prominent writer during a period in which few black writers were published with regularity in America. Her novels The Street, Country Place, and The Narrows, along with a collection of short stories and various essays and works of nonfiction, give voice to black experience outside of the traditional strains of poverty and black nationalism.At Home Inside: A Daughter's ... Read more

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  • An Other Kind of Home

    Gender-Sexual Abjection, Subjectivity, and the Uncanny in Literature and Film

    by Kyle Frackman ...
    Series Book 9 - Kulturtransfer und Geschlechterforschung
    In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined cultural products are aspects of gender, sexuality, a notion of home or belonging, and pressures of abjection. Other elements of identity include race and disease. The characters in the analyzed works ... Read more

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