The Posthumous Voice In Womens Writing From Mary Shelley To Sylvia Plath

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The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath

Author : Claire Raymond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351883666
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath written by Claire Raymond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book posits a new theory of women's writing characterized by what Claire Raymond calls 'the posthumous voice.'This suggestive term evokes the way that women's writing both forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and behind the written work. Tracing the use of the disembodied posthumous voice in fiction and poetry by Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath, Raymond's study sounds out the ways that the trope of the posthumous voice succeeds in negotiating the difficult cultural space between the concept of woman's body and the production of canonical literature. Arguing that the nineteenth-century cult of mourning opens to women's writing the possibility of a post-Romantic 'self-elegy,' Raymond explores how the woman writer's appropriation and alteration of elegiac conventions signifies and revises her disrupted relationship to audience. Theorizing the posthumous voice as a gesture by which the woman writer claims, and in some cases gains, canonicity, Raymond contends that the elegy posed as if written by a dead woman for herself both describes and subverts the woman writer's secondary status in the English canon. For the woman writer, the self-elegy permits access to a topos central to canonical literature, with the implementation of the trope of the posthumous voice marking a crucial site of woman's interaction with the English canon.

Sylvia Plath

Author : Paul Mitchell
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8437083974
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Sylvia Plath written by Paul Mitchell and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvia Plath es una de las poetas más conocidas y controvertidas del siglo XX. Desde su muerte en 1963, el debate crítico sobre su obra ha sido animado y, en ocasiones, incluso hostil. Esta obra ilustra cómo leer a Plath desde una perspectiva alternativa, utilizando la teoría de Julia Kristeva sobre el lenguaje político, y que permite una apreciación de los poemas que va más allá de lo biográfico al hacer énfasis, en cambio, en los textos; de ese modo, se engrana con la primera persona como una herramienta heurística compleja e inestable. Al explorar los poemas en términos de su trascendencia en lugar de centrarse exclusivamente en su significado explora la manera en la que la obra de Plath produce una crisis de subjetividad oratoria y, a partir de ahí, emerge la naturaleza «revolucionaria» de la voz poética.

The Contemporary Writer and Their Suicide

Author : Josefa Ros Velasco
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303128982X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Writer and Their Suicide written by Josefa Ros Velasco and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the continuation of the book Suicide in Modern Literature, edited by Josefa Ros Velasco. Considering the positive reception of this book, Ros Velasco launches the second part, entitled The Contemporary Writer and their Suicide. This time, leading representatives of various disciplines analyze the literary, philosophical, and biographical works of contemporary writers worldwide who attempted to commit suicide or achieved their goal, looking for covert and overt clues about their intentions in their writings. This book aims to continue shedding light on the social and structural causes that lead to suicide and on the suicidal mind, but also to show that people assiduous to writing usually reflect their intentions to commit suicide in their writings, to explain how these frequently veiled intentions can be revealed and interpreted, and to highlight the potential of artistic, philosophical, and autobiographical writing as a tool to detect suicidal ideation and prevent its consummation in vulnerable people. This book analyzes several case studies and their allusions to their contexts and the socio-structural and environmental violence and pressures they suffered, expressions of their will and agency, feelings of dislocation between the individual, reality, and existential alienation, and literary styles, writing techniques, and metaphorical language.

Women and Death 3

Author : Clare Bielby
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571134395
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Women and Death 3 written by Clare Bielby and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions.

Romantic Outlaws

Author : Charlotte Gordon
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812980476
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Outlaws written by Charlotte Gordon and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book—until now. In Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing author who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Romantic visionary who gave the world Frankenstein—two courageous women who should have shared their lives, but instead shared a powerful literary and feminist legacy. In 1797, less than two weeks after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft died, and a remarkable life spent pushing against the boundaries of society’s expectations for women came to an end. But another was just beginning. Wollstonecraft’s daughter Mary was to follow a similarly audacious path. Both women had passionate relationships with several men, bore children out of wedlock, and chose to live in exile outside their native country. Each in her own time fought against the injustices women faced and wrote books that changed literary history. The private lives of both Marys were nothing less than the stuff of great Romantic drama, providing fabulous material for Charlotte Gordon, an accomplished historian and a gifted storyteller. Taking readers on a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Victorian England, she seamlessly interweaves the lives of her two protagonists in alternating chapters, creating a book that reads like a richly textured historical novel. Gordon also paints unforgettable portraits of the men in their lives, including the mercurial genius Percy Shelley, the unbridled libertine Lord Byron, and the brilliant radical William Godwin. “Brave, passionate, and visionary, they broke almost every rule there was to break,” Gordon writes of Wollstonecraft and Shelley. A truly revelatory biography, Romantic Outlaws reveals the defiant, creative lives of this daring mother-daughter pair who refused to be confined by the rigid conventions of their era. Praise for Romantic Outlaws “[An] impassioned dual biography . . . Gordon, alternating between the two chapter by chapter, binds their lives into a fascinating whole. She shows, in vivid detail, how mother influenced daughter, and how the daughter’s struggles mirrored the mother’s.”—The Boston Globe

Colonial Australian Women Poets

Author : Katie Hansord
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785272705
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Australian Women Poets written by Katie Hansord and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book traces the significant poetic and political contributions made by non-canonical women poets, situating women's poetry both in colonial Australian print culture and in wider imperial and transnational contexts. Women poets in colonial Australia have tended to be represented as marginal and isolated figures or absent. This study intervenes by demonstrating an alternative networked tradition of transnational feminist poetics and politics beyond and around emergent masculine nationalism, particularly within newspapers and periodical print culture. Without the inclusion of periodical literature, women’s poetry in Australia during the colonial period would appear to have been fairly limited. When periodical literature is taken into account, this picture is radically altered, and poets emerge as consistent contributors, often across a variety of newspapers and journals, who were well-known, influential and connected with political figures and literary circles. In examining this poetry in the original context of the newspapers and journals, the political intervention and the reception of that poetry is made much more apparent.

Women Write

Author : Susan Cahill
Publisher : NAL
ISBN 13 : 9780451211217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Women Write written by Susan Cahill and published by NAL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf to Toni Morrison and Lorrie Moore, this wide-ranging collection features the most brilliant fiction, poetry, memoir, letters, and essays by women writers with a pitch-perfect ear and a rich understanding of the unique female perspective. Writers included: Julian of Norwich € Anne Bradstreet € Aphra Behn Lady Mary Wortley Montagu € Mary Wollstonecraft € Jane Austen Mary Shelley € Margaret Fuller € Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet A. Jacobs € George Eliot € Frances E. W. Harper Emily Dickinson € Louisa May Alcott € Sarah Orne Jewett Edith Wharton € Willa Cather € Virginia Woolf € Marianne Moore Katherine Mansfield € Zora Neale Hurston € Lorrie Moore Stevie Smith € Kathleen Raine € Elizabeth Bishop Mary Lavin € Tillie Olsen € Muriel Rukeyser € Maeve Brennan Muriel Spark € Grace Paley € Marie Ponsot € Nadine Gordimer Denise Levertov € Flannery O'Conner € Maya Angelou Cynthia Ozick € Adrienne Rich € Toni Morrison € Alice Munro Edna O'Brien € Mary Oliver € Lucille Clifton € June Jordan Marge Piercy € Sharon Olds € Alice Walker € Leslie Marmon Silko Rita Dove € Sandra Cisneros € Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Lyric in Victorian Memory

Author : Veronica Alfano
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319513079
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Lyric in Victorian Memory written by Veronica Alfano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits – such as brevity, stanzaic structure, and sonic repetition – that appear in the lyrics examined. This book considers the interwoven nature of remembering and forgetting in the work of four Victorian poets. It uses this theme to shed new light on the relationship between lyric and narrative, on the connections between gender and genre, and on the way in which Victorians represented and commemorated the past.

Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry

Author : Michael Gamer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107158850
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry written by Michael Gamer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Gamer explodes the myth of the unworldly Romantic poet, showing writers' interest in public presence, and profit and loss.

Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South

Author : Claire Raymond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351872532
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South written by Claire Raymond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston, Claire Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American women's literature and photography from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dickinson's poetry is read through its relationship to the Southern Agrarian critics who championed her work. While the representations of violence found in Carrie Mae Weems's installation From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Morrison's Beloved, Dickinson’s poetry, O'Connor's 'A View of the Woods' and 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find,' Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Café, and Hurston's Mules and Men are diverse in terms of artistic presentation, all allude to or are set in the antebellum and Jim Crow South. In addition, all involve feminine characters whose subjectivity is shaped by the practice of seeing acts of violence inflicted where there can be no effective resistance. While not proposing an equivalence between representing violence in visual images and written text, Raymond does suggest that visual images of violence can be interpreted in context with written evocations of violent imagery. Invoking sadism in its ethical sense of violence enacted on a victim for whom self-defense and recourse of any kind are impossible, Raymond's study is ultimately an exploration of the idea that a femininity constructed by the positioning of feminine characters as witnesses to sadistic acts is a phenomenon distinctly of the American South that is linked to the culture's history of racism.

Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma

Author : Jessica Gildersleeve
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401210470
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma written by Jessica Gildersleeve and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma analyses the treatment of memory and the past in Bowen’s writing through the lens of trauma theory. It draws on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Sigmund Freud, and Cathy Caruth, to propose that Bowen’s work is best understood through the psychological, narratological, and linguistic effects of trauma in her fiction. Bowen’s writing complicates existing deconstructive and psychoanalytic models of trauma and literature, and testifies to the responsibility of survival and the ethics of bearing witness.

Representing Female Artistic Labour, 1848-1890

Author : Patricia Zakreski
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754651031
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Representing Female Artistic Labour, 1848-1890 written by Patricia Zakreski and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking specifically at sewing, art, writing, and acting, Zakreski shows how these professions increasingly came to be defined as 'artistic' and thus as suitable professions for middle-class women, and argues that the supposedly degrading activity of paid work could be transformed into a refining experience for women. Rather than consigning working women to the margins of patriarchal culture, then, her study shows how representations of creative women, by authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dinah Craik, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge, participated in and shaped new forms of mainstream culture."--BOOK JACKET.

A Companion to Poetic Genre

Author : Erik Martiny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444336738
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Poetic Genre written by Erik Martiny and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, among others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal, and the ballad, before moving on to Medieval and Renaissance genres originally invented or codified by the Troubadours or poets who followed in their wake. The book also approaches genres driven by theme, such as the calypso and found poetry. Each chapter begins by defining the genre in its initial stages, charting historical developments and finally assessing its latest mutations, be they structural, thematic, parodic, assimilative, or subversive.

The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature

Author : W. Michelle Wang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000220745
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature written by W. Michelle Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography, documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel, opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more – the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where “live with” itself might mean any number of things: from consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative, contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.

From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation

Author : Dr Lisa K Perdigao
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409475964
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation written by Dr Lisa K Perdigao and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao's study of American writers. Arguing that the crisis of bodily representation can be traced in the move from modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation, Perdigao considers how works by writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, and Richard Wright to Jody Shields, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Jeffrey Eugenides reflect changing attitudes about dying, death, and mourning. For example, while modernist writers direct their plots toward a transformation of the dead body by way of metaphor, postmodernist writers exhume the transformed body, reasserting its materiality. Rather than viewing these tropes in oppositional terms, Perdigao examines the implications for narrative of the authors' apparently contradictory attempts to recover meaning at the site of loss. She argues that entombment and exhumation are complementary drives that speak to the tension between the desire to bury the dead and the need to remember, indicating shifts in critical discussions about the body and about the function of aesthetics in relation to materialized violence and loss.

Literature and Fascination

Author : Sibylle Baumbach
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137538015
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Fascination written by Sibylle Baumbach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan.

The Giallo Canvas

Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476640769
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Giallo Canvas written by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved among cult horror devotees for its signature excesses of sex and violence, Italian giallo cinema is marked by switchblades, mysterious killers, whisky bottles and poetically overinflated titles. A growing field of English-language giallo studies has focused on aspects of production, distribution and reception. This volume explores an overlooked yet prevalent element in some of the best known gialli--an obsession with art and artists in creative production, with a particular focus on painting. The author explores the appearance and significance of art objects across the masterworks of such filmmakers as Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Umberto Lenzi, Michele Soavi, Mario Bava and his son Lamberto.