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Author Aguiar, Sarah Appleton, 1957-

Title The bitch is back : wicked women in literature / Sarah Appleton Aguiar.

Publication Info. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2001]
©2001

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 Moore Stacks  PS374.W6 A36 2001    Available  ---
Description viii, 173 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index.
Contents Introduction: The season of the bitch. -- To arche the type or not to arche the type. -- The male perspective. -- Women reading and women writing the bitch. -- Revising the literary history. -- The art of becoming the bitch. -- Syzygy. -- Coda: The bitch code.
Form Also issued online.
Summary Aguiar, focusing on the traits and characteristics of the strong-willed female protagonist, analyzes over one hundred examples in a wide range of literature. Among the characters discussed are Zenia in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride, Ruth Patchett in Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Sula in Toni Morrison's Sula, and Ginny in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres.
Subject American fiction -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
Feminism and literature.
English-speaking countries.
Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
Women and literature.
English literature -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Villains in literature.
Villains in literature.
Good and evil in literature.
Good and evil in literature.
Other Form: Online version: Aguiar, Sarah Appleton, 1957- Bitch is back. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2001 (OCoLC)606480849
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