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Genre Choices, Gender Questions

Author : Mary Gerhart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806124506
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Genre Choices, Gender Questions written by Mary Gerhart and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre and gender share not only a common etymology but also a joint history of misreading, which ranges from their being completely ignored on the one hand to their being cast into unbreakable stereotypes on the other. Mary Gerhart's Genre Choices, Gender Questions opens these two concepts to inquiry and locates their changing relationships at the center of critical interpretation. Gerhart demonstrates that a theory of genre must move beyond mere categorizing. She summarizes the significant stages in the history of thinking about genre from Plato to Derrida and proposes a new role for genre that makes it pivotal in current discussions of critical theory. Developing a model of genre that is epistemological, historical, theoretical, and praxis oriented, she tests it in relation to such fields as religious studies, speech-act theory, cultural studies, and biblical hermeneutics, but above all by applying it to the interpretation of narrative fiction and film. Genre Choices, Gender Questions explores the complex and ambiguous relationship between genre and gender. Drawing on recent developments in gender studies, Gerhart examines the fluid relationship between the changing status of women authors in such genres as courtly love poetry, the novel, and biblical narrative and the legitimation or devaluation of those genres. Genre Choices, Gender Questions deals lucidly with complex concepts. focus is never narrow, but opens out consistently toward ancillary issues such as feminist readings and deconstructionism, which strengthen the author's argument. Gerhart convincingly suggests the profound implications of genre and gender, as she redefines them, for both literary criticism and religious studies. Genre Choices, Gender Questions is volume 9 of the Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory.

Gender, Genre and Religion

Author : Morny Joy
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 088920750X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Genre and Religion written by Morny Joy and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many feminists today are challenging the outmoded aspects of both the conventions and the study of religion in radical ways. Canadian feminists are no exception. Gender, Genre and Religion is the outcome of a research network of leading women scholars organized to survey the contribution of Canadian women working in the field of religious studies and, further, to “plot the path forward.” This collection of their essays covers most of the major religious traditions and offers exciting suggestions as to how religious traditions will change as women take on more central roles. Feminist theories have been used by all contributors as a springboard to show that the assumptions of unified monolithic religions and their respective canons is a fabrication created by a scholarship based on male privilege. Using gender and genre as analytical tools, the essays reflect a diversity of approaches and open up new ways of reading sacred texts. Superb essays by Pamela Dickey Young, Winnie Tomm, Morny Joy and Marsha Hewitt, among others, honour the first generation of feminist theologians and situate the current generation, showing how they have learned from and gone beyond their predecessors. The sensitive and original essays in Gender, Genre and Religion will be of interest to feminist scholars and to anyone teaching women and religion courses.

Screening Gender, Framing Genre

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802044751
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Screening Gender, Framing Genre written by Peter Dickinson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history and theory of films adapted from Canadian literature through the lens of gender studies. This study offers readings of works by well-known Canadian authors such as Margaret Atwood, Marie-Claire Blais, and Michael Ondaatje, and by important Canadian filmmakers such as Mireille Dansereau, Claude Jutra, and Bruce McDonald.

Modern Genre Theory

Author : David Duff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317879317
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Modern Genre Theory written by David Duff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Aristotle, genre has been one of the fundamental concepts of literary theory, and much of the world's literature and criticism has been shaped by ideas about the nature, function and value of literary genres. Modern developments in critical theory, however, prompted in part by the iconoclastic practices of modern writers and the emergence of new media such as film and television, have put in question traditional categories, and challenged the assumptions on which earlier genre theory was based. This has led not just to a reinterpretation of individual genres and the development of new classifications, but also to a radically new understanding of such key topics as the mixing and evolution of genres, generic hierarchies and genre-systems, the politics and sociology of genres, and the relations between genre and gender. This anthology, the first of its kind in English, charts these fascinating developments. Through judicious selections from major twentieth-century genre theorists including Yury Tynyanov, Vladimir Propp, Mikhail Bakhtin, Hans Robert Jauss, Rosalie Colie, Fredric Jameson, Tzvetan Todorov, Gérard Genette and Jacques Derrida, it demonstrates the central role that notions of genre have played in Russian Formalism, structuralism and post-structuralism, reception theory, and various modes of historical criticism. Each essay is accompanied by a detailed headnote, and the volume opens with a lucid introduction emphasising the international and interdisciplinary character of modern debates about genre. Also included are an annotated bibliography and a glossary of key terms, making this an indispensable resource for students and anyone interested in genre studies or literary theory.

Encountering Difference: New Perspectives on Genre, Travel and Gender

Author : Gigi Adair
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622738705
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Difference: New Perspectives on Genre, Travel and Gender written by Gigi Adair and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection poses crucial questions about the relationship between gender and genre in travel writing, asking how gender shapes formal and thematic approaches to the various generic forms employed to represent and recreate travel. While the question of the genre of travel writing has often been debated (is it a genre, a hybrid genre, a sub-genre of autobiography?), and recent years have been much attention to travel writing and gender, these have rarely been combined. This book sheds light on how the gendered nature of writing and reading about travel affect the genre choices and strategies of writers, as well as the way in which travel writing is received. It reconsiders traditional and frequently studied forms of travel writing, both European and non-European. In addition, it pursues questions about the connections between travel writing and other genres, such as the novel and films, minor forms including journalism and blogging, and new sub-genres such as the ‘new nature writing’; focusing in particular on the political ramifications of genre in travel writing. The collection is international in focus with discussions of works by authors from Europe, Asia, Australia, and both North and South America; consequently, it will be of great interest to scholars and historians in those regions.

Film Sequels

Author : Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748689478
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Film Sequels written by Carolyn Jess-Cooke and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of sequel production within recent Hollywood and beyond in terms of its industrial, cultural and global implications.

Reading with a Passion

Author : Jeffrey Staley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826414328
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Reading with a Passion written by Jeffrey Staley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this strikingly personal account of recent literary approaches to the Bible, Jeffrey Staley shows how people's life experiences relate to what they read in the Scriptures. He illustrates his argument from theories of autobiography, where recent literary and feminist critiques provide him with tools for reflecting upon his childhood on a Navajo reservation and his family's five generations of contact with the Navajo people in northern Arizona and New Mexico.Using Tony Hillerman's popular detective novels as a lens to refract his own childhood memories, Staley investigates how his cross-cultural childhood and family history have contributed to his understanding of the Fourth Gospel.By combining such diverse materials as popular fiction, medieval passion plays, cultural anthropology, rhetorical studies, and autobiographical reflection, Staley takes his readers on a fascinating spiritual and intellectual journey through the Gospel of John.

Sleuthing Ethnicity

Author : Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639795
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Sleuthing Ethnicity written by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Evil after Postmodernism

Author : Jennifer Geddes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135127190
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Evil after Postmodernism written by Jennifer Geddes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These six essays form a stimulating and lucid investigation of the meaning of evil in the light of postmodern thought, and of the cultural and social changes of the modern age. They consider subjects such as the war in Bosnia, AIDS, and the Holocaust.

Donne and the Resources of Kind

Author : A. D. Cousins
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639016
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Donne and the Resources of Kind written by A. D. Cousins and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thus they suggest how his drawing on the resources of kind illuminates at once his own writings and their interactions with those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. They suggest as well what his dealings with genre imply about his dealings with social and political authority in his world - for example, about his dealings with the courtly world and its ideologies, with specific patrons, with religious doctrine and controversy."--BOOK JACKET.

Privacy and Print

Author : Cecile M. Jagodzinski
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918396
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Privacy and Print written by Cecile M. Jagodzinski and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes that the emergence of the concept of privacy as a personal right and the core of individuality is connected in a complex way with the easy availability of printed books and the spread of the ability to read that emerged during the period. Looks at representations of reading and readers, especially women, in devotional books, conversion narratives, personal letters, drama, and the novel. Also explores how privacy became gendered in the early modern periodAnnotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mothers of Invention

Author : Miléna Santoro
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773570268
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Mothers of Invention written by Miléna Santoro and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-06-26 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santoro elucidates notoriously difficult works by the four "mothers of invention" studied - Cixous and Hyvrard from France, and Gagnon and Brossard from Quebec - showing how the rethinking of images associated with femininity and motherhood, a disruptive approach to language, and a subversive relation to novelistic conventions characterize these writers' search for a writing that will best express women's desires and dreams. Mothers of Invention situates such ideologically motivated textual practices within the avant-garde tradition, even as it suggests how women's experimental writings collectively transform our understanding of that tradition. Santoro makes clear the shared ethical and aesthetic commitments that nourished a transatlantic community whose contribution to mainstream literature and cultural productions, including postmodernism, is still being felt today.

To Watch Theatre

Author : Rachel Fensham
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9789052010274
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book To Watch Theatre written by Rachel Fensham and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about watching theatre; and how to utilise a corporeal semiotics to read genres of contemporary theatre. It suggests that three key concepts interact: genre, the formal term that structures theatricality, including the textual grammar of a dramatic work, its performance style, theatrical frame, and mode of rhetorical address; corporeality, an assemblage of the troubling physical work of the actors, the figurative forms in the text, and the ambivalent bodies of the spectators; and performance, the presenting of theatre as symbolic action in the social world. In order to develop new models of embodied spectatorship, these essays examine canonical productions of Medea, King Lear, Miss Julie, Genesi: The Museum of Sleep directed by Deborah Warner, Barrie Kosky, Anne Bogart, and Romeo Castellucci. With close attention to bodies and texts in performance, the book argues that to watch theatre is an intimate, yet political, atunement to processes of human transfiguration. It concludes by offering a reinvigorated perspective on tragedy and tragic experience in the theatre.

What’s France got to do with it?

Author : Juliana de Nooy
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760463647
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book What’s France got to do with it? written by Juliana de Nooy and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While only one book-length memoir recounting the sojourn of an Australian in France was published in the 1990s, well over 40 have been published since 2000, overwhelmingly written by women. Although we might expect a focus on travel, intercultural adjustment and communication in these texts, this is the case only in a minority of accounts. More frequently, France serves as a backdrop to a project of self-renovation in which transplantation to another country is incidental, hence the question ‘What’s France got to do with it?’ The book delves into what France represents in the various narratives, its role in the self-transformation, and the reasons for the seemingly insatiable demand among readers and publishers for these stories. It asks why these memoirs have gained such traction among Australian women at the dawn of the twenty-first century and what is at stake in the fascination with France.

Chaucer's Losers, Nintendo's Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology

Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149621885X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Losers, Nintendo's Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology written by Tison Pugh and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tison Pugh examines the intersection of narratology, ludology, and queer studies, pointing to the ways in which the blurred boundaries between game and narrative provide both a textual and a metatextual space of queer narrative potential. By focusing on these three distinct yet complementary areas, Pugh shifts understandings of the way their play, pleasure, and narrative potential are interlinked. Through illustrative readings of an eclectic collection of cultural artifacts—from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda franchise, from Edward Albee’s dramatic masterpiece Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fantasy novels—Pugh offers perspectives of blissful ludonarratology, sadomasochistic ludonarratology, the queerness of rules, the queerness of godgames, and the queerness of children’s questing video games. Collectively, these analyses present a range of interpretive strategies for uncovering the disruptive potential of gaming texts and textual games while demonstrating the wide applicability of queer ludonarratology throughout the humanities.

A Companion to Latin American Women Writers

Author : Brigida M. Pastor
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 1855662361
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Latin American Women Writers written by Brigida M. Pastor and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Many of these women have attained the highest literary honours: Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize in 1945; Clarice Lispector attracted the critical attention of theorists working mainly outside the Hispanic area; others have made such telling contributions to particular strands of literature that their names are immediately evocative of specific currents or styles. Elena Poniatowska is associated with testimonial writing; Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel are known for the magical realism of their texts; others, such as Juana de Ibarbourou and Laura Restrepo remain relatively unknown despite their contributions to erotic poetry and to postcolonial prose fiction respectively. The distinctiveness of this volume lies in its attention to writers from widely differing historical and social contexts and to the diverse theoretical approaches adopted by the authors. Brígida M. Pastor teaches Latin American literature and film at the University of Glasgow . Her publications include Fashioning Cuban Feminism and Beyond, El discurso de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: Identidad Femenina y Otredad; and Discursos Caribenhos: Historia, Literatura e Cinema Lloyd Hughes Davies teaches Spanish American Literature at Swansea University. His publications include Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus and Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and Fiction.

Interactive World, Interactive God

Author : Carol Rausch Albright
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498293883
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Interactive World, Interactive God written by Carol Rausch Albright and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dawn of science, ideas about the relation between science and religion have always depended on what else is going on in a society. During the twentieth century, daily life changed dramatically. Technology revolutionized transportation, agriculture, communications, and housework. People came to rely on scientific predictability in their technology. Many wondered whether God's supposed actions were consistent with scientific knowledge. The twenty-first century is bringing new scientific research capabilities. They are revealing that scientific results are not totally predictable after all. Certain types of interaction lead to outcomes that are unpredictable, in principle. These in turn may lead to a whole new range of potential interactions. They do not rule out the reality of a dynamic God who can act in the world without breaking the known principles of science. God may in fact work with "the way things really are." Human experience of God may accurately reflect this reality. Interactive World, Interactive God illustrates such new understandings in religion and science by describing recent developments in a wide range of sciences, and providing theological commentary. The book is written for intelligent readers who may not be specialized in science but who are looking for ways to understand divine action in today's world.