Rethinking Contemporary British Women s Writing

Rethinking Contemporary British Women   s Writing
Author: Emilie Walezak
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781350171367

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Providing close readings of well-known British realist writers including Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, Rose Tremain, Sarah Hall, Bernadine Evaristo and Zadie Smith, this book uses new directions in material and posthuman feminism to examine how contemporary women writers explore the challenges we collectively face today. Walezak redresses negative assumptions about realism's alleged conservatism and demonstrates the vitality and relevance of the realist genre in experimenting with the connections between individual and collective voices, human and non-human meditations, local and global scales, and author and reader. Considering how contemporary realist writing is attuned to pressing issues including globalization, climate change, and interconnectivity, this book provides innovative new ways of reading realism, examines how these writers are looking to reinvent the genre, and shows how realism helps reimagine our place in the world.

Contemporary British Women Writers

Contemporary British Women Writers
Author: Emma Parker
Publsiher: DS Brewer
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1843840111

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Essays illustrating the range and diversity of post-1970 British women writers. Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women's writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their American counterparts in the media and have come to be represented within the academy almost exclusively by Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. This collection celebrates the range and diversity of contemporary (post-1970) British women writers. It challenges misconceptions about the natureand scope of fiction by women writers working in Britain - commonly dismissed as parochial, insular, dreary and domestic - and seeks to expand conventional definitions of "British" by exploring how issues of nationality intersectwith gender, class, race and sexuality. Writers covered include Pat Barker, A.L. Kennedy, Maggie Gee, Rukhsana Ahmad, Joan Riley, Jennifer Johnston, Ellen Galford, Susan Hill, Fay Weldon, Emma Tennant, and Helen Fielding. Contributors: DAVID ELLIS, CLARE HANSON, MAROULA JOANNOU, PAULINA PALMER, EMMA PARKER, FELICITY ROSSLYN, CHRISTIANE SCHLOTE, JOHN SEARS, ELUNED SUMMERS-BREMNER, IMELDA WHELEHAN, GINA WISKER.

Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers

Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers
Author: Radha Chakravarty
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2014-05-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781317809951

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This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison — are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the theoretical debate. A brief history of subjectivity and subject formation is reviewed in the light of the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Raymond Williams and Stephen Greenblatt, and the work of leading feminists is also seen contributing to the debate substantially.

Rethinking Women s Collaborative Writing

Rethinking Women s Collaborative Writing
Author: Lorraine Mary York
Publsiher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0802084656

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York explores collaborative writing from women in Britain, the United States, Italy and France, illuminating the tensions in the collaborative process that grow out of important cultural, racial, and sexual differences between the authors.

The History of British Women s Writing 1750 1830

The History of British Women s Writing  1750 1830
Author: Jennie Batchelor,Caroline Bicks,Cora Kaplan,Jennifer Summit,Jacqueline M. Labbe
Publsiher: History of British Women's Wri
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2010-08-20
Genre: History
ISBN: CORNELL:31924114803939

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Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this volume 2 examines the diversity of early women's writing (from verse and songs to household records and recipes), offering a new paradigm for understanding women's shaping roles in the literary, religious, and political movements of the sixteenth century.

Modern British Women Writers

Modern British Women Writers
Author: Vicki K. Janik,Del Ivan Janik,Emmanuel Sampath Nelson
Publsiher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2002-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0313310300

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A-Z entries analyze works, assess achievements, and list primary and secondary sources for 58 British women writers of the 20th century.

Contemporary British Womens Writing

Contemporary British Womens Writing
Author: Emilie Walezak
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1350171387

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"This book addresses the reception of realist texts by contemporary women writers inherited from theories of social constructionism. Offering close readings of well-known British realist writers such as Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, and Rose Tremain as well as of emerging millennial writers such as Sarah Hall and Zadie Smith, it redresses negative assumptions about realism's alleged conservatism and normativity and uses the new directions of material and posthuman feminism to demonstrate the resurgence of realist writing in contemporary women's writing."--

The History of British Women s Writing

The History of British Women s Writing
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2010
Genre: English literature
ISBN: 0230200796

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