Imagining Gender In Biographical Fiction
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Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction
Author | : Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill |
Publsiher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-12-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3031090187 |
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This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their ‘raw material’, the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction
Author | : Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2022-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783031090196 |
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This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their ‘raw material’, the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Sisters in Time
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Author | : Susan Morgan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 1601297297 |
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Asking why the 19th-century British novel features heroines, and how and why it features ""feminine heroism,"" Susan Morgan traces the relationship between fictional depictions of gender and Victorian ideas of history and progress. Morgan approaches gender in selected 19th-century British novels as an imaginative category, accessible to authors and characters of either sex. Arguing that conventional definitions of heroism offer a fixed and history-denying perspective on life, the book traces a literary tradition that represents social progress as a process of feminization. The capacities for f.
The Factory Girl and the Seamstress
Author | : Amal Amireh |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2021-12-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781136712609 |
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This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with their society's economic and social relaities. Against this view and to highlight the cultural importance of working-class women, this study argues that, in responding to industrialization, middle class writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Fern, Davies, and Phelps used the figures of the factory worker and the seamstress to express their anxieties about unstable gender and class identitites. These fictional representations were influenced by, and contributed to, an important but understudied cultural debate about wage labor, working women, and class.
Reading the Contemporary Author
Author | : Alison Gibbons,Elizabeth King |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2023-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781496234612 |
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Reading the Contemporary Author brings together leading scholars in cultural theory, literary criticism, stylistics, narratology, comparative literature, and autobiography studies to interrogate how we read the contemporary author in public and cultural life, in life writing, and in literature.
From Shakespeare to Autofiction
Author | : Martin Procházka |
Publsiher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781800086548 |
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From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of empirical authors, through collaborative authorship and authorship as ‘cultural capital’, to the shifting roles of authors in recent autofiction and biofiction. In response to Roland Barthes’ ‘removal of the Author’ and its substitution by Michel Foucault’s ‘author function’, different historical forms of modern authorship are approached as ‘multiplicities’ integrated by agency, performativity and intensity in the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Wolfgang Iser, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The book also reassesses recent debates of authorship in European and Latin American literatures. It demonstrates that the outcomes of these debates need wider theoretical and methodological reflection that takes into account the historical development of authorship and changing understandings of fiction, performativity and new media. Individual chapters trace significant moments in the history of authorship from the early modernity to the present (from Shakespeare’s First Folio to Latin American experimental autofiction), and discuss the methodologies reinstating the author and authorship as the irreducible aspects of literary process. Praise for From Shakespeare to Autofiction 'In this collection a multicultural group of literary scholars analyse a rich array of authorship types and models across four centuries. After decades of liquid poststructuralist concepts, it is refreshing and inspiring to think through such diversity of authorship strategies – from oral culture, through sociological constructs, to self-referential and autobiographical ontological games that writers play with us, their readers.' Pavel Drábek, University of Hull
Troubled Vision
Author | : E. Campbell,R. Mills |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137114518 |
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Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that address the troubling effects of vision on medieval texts and images, the book mediates between medieval and modern constructions of gender and sexuality. Troubled Vision focuses thematically on four central themes: Desire, looking, representation and reading. Topics include the gender of the gaze, the visibility of queer desires, troubled representations of gender and sexuality, spectacle and reader response, and the visual troubling of modern critical categories.
Imagining Shakespeare s Wife
Author | : Katherine West Scheil |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781108416696 |
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Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.