Browsing by Subject "women writers"
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(2008-08-30)Russia’s women have had a difficult time finding a voice in literature until as recently as the 1980s. With this new voice, many women writers have countered the widespread gender assumptions inherent in patriarchal Russian ...
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(1995)While recent gender criticism has undertaken the effort to uncover important women's work, a large number of women writers remain unread or even misunderstood. This has certainly been the case with the poet Mina Loy, who ...
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(2010-10-12)This project examines the representation of architectural and metaphoric spaces in the works of four nineteenth-century American women writers: Harriet Wilson, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Edith Wharton. I ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation discusses contemporary U.S. women’s literature in the context of women’s struggles with nation and nationalism, examining how Leslie Marmon Silko, Gloria Naylor, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Nora Okja Keller ...
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(2016-08-04)Women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries changed the genre of commonplace books. During the Romantic period, women shifted emphasis away from classical texts and conduct literature toward colloquial, individualized ...