It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A few translations of writings by Japanese women have appeared lately, yet the West remains largely ignorant of this wide field. In this book...
Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘Had Elizabeth Bowen been a man, she would be recognised as one of the finest novelists of the 20th century’ Sat Mar 07 2015 - 09:05 In praise of Mary Lavin, by Belinda McKeon Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘She depicted with immense power the inner...
Strangers in the study ; Lust and literature is a heady mixture, and the women writers of the 20th century who married poets and novelists often came unstuck in both life and art. Lesley McDowell reassesses some famous literary partnerships...
This provocative book discusses two of the most significant influences on writing and thinking in the 20th century: women novelists and feminist theory. It demonstrates, in an accessible but imaginative manner, ways of reading women's novels alongside work by feminist theorists. Each chapter situate...
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"Miller's is the best account we have, not only of Edwardian women novelists, but of early 20th-century women novelists; the measure of her achievement is that the distinction no longer seems workable." David Trotter, The London Review of Books 展开 ...
175. COLBY, Vineta The Singular Anomaly: women novelists of the 19th century New York University Press 1970 Soft covers – good internally – covers rubbed and bumped [8311] £12 176. CUNNINGTON, C. Willett Feminine Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century William Heinemann 1935 Good [2558] £15...
Also ranks #22 on The Greatest Female Novelists Ever Also ranks #28 on The Best Historical Fiction Writers of All Time Also ranks #43 on The Best Female Authors of All Time 100 votes Does she deserve her own bill? Photo: Fred Palumbo Wikimedia Commons No known copyright restrictions 24 Be...
rather than a curse. ‘Every time we fall down a well’,de Céspedeswrites, ‘we descend to the deepest roots of our being human; when we come back to the surface, we carry such experiences with us that enable us to understand everything men never will — since they never fall into...
The hardship of the Depression and the coming of World War II refocused African American literature and art towards social criticism, as evidenced by the work of such novelists as Ann Petry, whose 1946 novel The Street chronicled the struggles of a working class Black woman in Harlem. In 1949...