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"Metamorphosis and the Emergence of the Feminine: A Motif of "Difference" in Women's Writing examines a motif of metamorphosis that follows the models of self-awareness proposed in several feminist theories.
Women writers from both North and South America, including those from different ethnic groups in the United States, employ the motif of insect and seed metamorphosis, which shows a development of the motif in stages as women increasingly become...
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"Blanche Gelfant's collection of engrossing and accessible essays does what criticism should (among other things) do: renders its subjects also engrossing and accessible. Her focus is on the subversiveness and "hunger" of fictions by American women, her choice of material -- from Gone With the Wind to Meridel Le Sueur -- wide-ranging and fresh. This is a welcome book, and will be welcomed." - Margaret Atwood, "Women Writing in America is a work of...
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"Sally Chivers provides a fascinating look at and challenge to how North American popular culture has portrayed old age as a time of disease, decline, and death. Within contemporary Canadian literary and film production, a tradition of articulate central elderly female characters challenges what the aging body has come to signify in a broader cultural context. Rather than seek positive images of aging, which can do their own prescriptive damage the...
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"This book charts the significant changes in contemporary Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the new national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking closely at a representative range of fictions in English by women from a variety of ethnocultural backgrounds, Coral Ann Howells examines the complexities embedded within Canadian identity. What does "Refiguring Identities" mean for these writers, given their individual...
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Atwood's celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature and this companion provides a comprehensive critical account of her writing across the wide range of genres she has worked in, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity.
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Using a feminist cultural studies approach, JoAnn McCaig "reads in" to the archives of acclaimed Canadian short story writer Alice Munro in order to explore precisely how the terms "canadian," "woman," "short story," and "writer" are constructed in her writing career. The three objectives in writing this book were: to question traditional myths or authorship; illustrate advantages of a cultural studies approach to archival materials; and "to see cultural...
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Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.
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In Adventures of the Spirit, Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis brings together eleven American and Canadian "literary gerontologists" to examine a new kind of adventure for the older woman in literature. This volume of critical essays analyzes recent works by contemporary women writers whose characters' midlife and later life changes are mapped in their narratives. Rather than focusing on the painful losses undergone by women of a certain age, recent narratives...
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