The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers
Author: Maren Tova Linett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 052151505X

A thorough overview of the main genres, important issues, and key figures in women's modernism during the years 1890-1945.

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers
Author: Maren Tova Linett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139825437

Women played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing, debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth century. This volume provides a thorough overview of the main genres, the important issues, and the key figures in women's writing during the years 1890–1945. The essays treat the work of Woolf, Stein, Cather, H. D. Barnes, Hurston, and many others in detail; they also explore women's salons, little magazines, activism, photography, film criticism, and dance. Written especially for this Companion, these lively essays introduce students and scholars to the vibrant field of women's modernism.

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
Author: Lorna Sage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 708
Release: 1999-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521668132

An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel
Author: Graham Bartram
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2004-04-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521483926

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.

The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism

The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
Author: Walter Kalaidjian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2005-04-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521829953

Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature
Author: Jodie Medd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316453561

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In addition to providing a helpful orientation to key literary-historical periods, critical concepts, theoretical debates and literary genres, this Companion considers the work of such well-known authors as Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel and Sarah Waters. Written by a host of leading critics and covering subjects as diverse as lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century and same-sex love in a postcolonial context, this Companion delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism
Author: Joseph N. Cleary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107031419

This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory
Author: Ellen Rooney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2006-07-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139826638

Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.

Modernist Voyages

Modernist Voyages
Author: Anna Snaith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-02-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 110778249X

London's literary and cultural scene fostered newly configured forms of feminist anticolonialism during the modernist period. Through their writing in and about the imperial metropolis, colonial women authors not only remapped the city, they also renegotiated the position of women within the empire. This book examines the significance of gender to the interwoven nature of empire and modernism. As transgressive figures of modernity, writers such as Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, Una Marson and Sarojini Naidu brought their own versions of modernity to the capital, revealing the complex ways in which colonial identities 'traveled' to London at the turn of the twentieth century. Anna Snaith's original study provides an alternative vantage point on the urban metropolis and its artistic communities for scholars and students of literary modernism, gender and postcolonial studies, and English literature more broadly.