Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5207+7104 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988498 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=554810 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=560131 This reference includes substantial alphabetically arranged entries on nearly 70 women writers whose works are widely read in English. While most of these women are from England and America, the volume also profiles Chilean, Brazilian, Indian, South African, Australian, French, and German authors. The writers selected are feminist in that their works have challenged traditional gender roles, explored female oppression, or critiqued patriarchal social structures. The encyclopedia also includes entries on some 20 related topics, such as Domesticity, Friendship, Gothic, and Spirituality. Each author entry includes biographical information, an extensive summary treatment of at least one of her works, a list of her other major works, cross-references to related entries, and a list of works for further reading. Entries are clearly written and are accessible to high school students and undergraduates. An interpretative summary in each entry distinguishes this encyclopedia from other volumes addressing feminist literature or literature by women. The volume closes with a list of works cited.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=369060 This pathbreaking book of feminist criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=387360 Explores the central and largely forgotten part that the writings of public women played in the revolution in the family and in middle- and upper-class ladies status and familial roles in the 18th century. Chapters consider the visions of domestic hierarchy and the nonpatriarchal family, the mechanisms and conventions of fictional exemplification, sexual revolution and the Hardwicke Marriage Act of 1753, and how opposing views of Matriarchs and Egalitarians constructed the family as a sphere of female action and imagined women and men governing separate spheres. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=319154 Have women moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in poetry and its criticism? In By Herself, women poets reconsider their art form on their own terms, and the results are telling: a collection of essays that are original, challenging, playful, ruthlessly individualistic, and inviting. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=197475 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=76579 With its theme of autonomy and independence, Virginia Woolfs 1929 essay A Room of Ones Own has become part of our modern cultural vocabulary. It was the first literary history of women writers and the first theory of literary inheritance in which gender was the central category. As a theory of womens literature, it presents general ideas and issues through which the lives and works of women writers might profitably be read. Woolf (in the persona of narrator) does not offer extended readings of individual literary works but speculates about why and how women wrote as they did - which has proved infinitely more valuable to twentieth-century critics attempting to map out the new terrain of womens literature. A Room of Ones Own is much more than a historical landmark of feminist criticism: remarkably, it has served the needs of various strains of feminist criticism, not all of them compatible with each other. In this balanced and insightful study, Ellen Bayuk Rosenman explores the myriad perceptions of a work whose famous title comes from one of its most basic and simple prescriptions: that to fare as a writer in the modern world a woman needs a room of her own and [pound]500 a year. In a broad sense, Rosenman points out, A Room of Ones Own analyzes the constraints on womens achievement - the hostile environment in which they write - and the responses, both creative and self-defeating, that this environment provokes. This environment - the historically ordered patriarchy - Rosenman observes as Woolf observed it, from the place of the outsider. Rosenman follows the essays analysis of what she considers two large and vague words: patriarchy and feminism. In various chapters Rosenman discusses the essays exploration of sociology of creativity; of male social institutions - namely, Oxford and Cambridge universities and the British Museum - as gateways at which the initiated are separated from the outsiders; and of female creativity and literary history. Rosenman also pays special attention to the essay as novel, showing how the twists and turns of Woolfs narrative in A Room of Ones Own - her creation of a shadowy persona and her heavy use of irony - resemble experimental literary techniques. Rosenman concludes her engaging analysis with a summation of the blind spots of Woolfs masterwork. Along with preliminary chapters discussing the essay in the context of Woolfs own history and how it was received by critics, Rosenman devotes a fascinating chapter to the importance of the very new and few womens colleges in England at the time Woolf wrote A Room of Ones Own, which derived from speeches she gave at the two womens colleges in Oxford a year before.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=151791 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=130687 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=237899 This is the first full-length study of Gothic to be written from the perspective of Bakhtinian theory. Dr Howard uses Bakhtins concepts of heteroglossia and dialogism in specific historical analyses of key works of the genre. Her discussions of Ann Radcliffes Mysteries of Udolpho, Matthew Lewiss The Monk, Jane Austens Northanger Abbey, and Mary Shelleys Frankenstein demonstrate that the discursive ambiguity of these novels is not inherently subversive, but that the political force of particular discourses is contingent upon their interaction with other discourses in the reading process. This position enables the author to intervene in feminist discussions of Gothic, which have claimed it as a specifically female genre. Dr Howard suggests a way in which feminists can appropriate Bakhtin to make politically effective readings, while acknowledging that these readings do not exhaust the novels possibilities of meaning and reception. Drawing on the most up-to-date debates in literary theory, this is a sophisticated and scholarly analysis of a genre that has consistently challenged literary criticism.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=210346 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=212691 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=37362 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=235651 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=152620