| Description |
ix, 350 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Contributions in women's studies,
0147-104X ;
no. 86
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[Hofstra University's cultural and intercultural studies]
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Contributions in women's studies ; no. 86.
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Hofstra University cultural & intercultural studies.
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| Note |
Papers selected from those presented at the Twentieth-Century Women Writers' International Conference, held Nov. 4-7, 1982, at Hofstra University. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
The (woman) writer / Joyce Carol Oates -- Joyce Carol Oates's The Dead and feminist criticism / Elaine Showalter -- Acts of self-creation, female identity in the novels of Margaret Drabble / Anne Golomb Hoffman -- "Grave endearing traditions", Edith Wharton and the domestic novel / Jeanne Boydston -- Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, and their nineteenth-century forerunners / Ann Edwards Boutelle -- The poetic world of Snezhina Slavova / Yuri V. Karageorge -- Kay Boyle, in a woman's voice / Sandra Whipple Spanier -- Two women, the transformations / Alison Rieke -- Effects of urbanization in the novels of Christiane Rochefort / Anne D. Cordero -- Irmgard Keun, a German deviation / Livia Z. Wittmann -- Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Jean Rhys, what Rhys's letters show about that relationship / Joan Givner -- Literary criticism / Catharine R. Stimpson -- Miles Franklin, chronicler of the Australian bush and early feminist / Paulette Rose -- Edna St. Vincent Millay - saint of the modern sonnet / Jean Gould -- Domestic comedy, black comedy, and real life, Shirley Jackson, a woman writer / Lynette Carpenter -- Records of survival, the autobiographical writings of Marieluise Fleisser and Marie Luise Kaschnitz / Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres -- Jhabvala's fiction, the passage from India / Charmazel Dudt -- Luise Rinser's autobiographical prose, political engagement and feminist awareness / Elke Frederiksen -- Women and choice - a new look at Simone de Beauvoir and the second sex / Carol Ascher -- Virginia, virginius, virginity / Louse A. DeSalveo -- Sexual politics and female heroism in the novels of Christina Stead / Louise Yelin -- Agnes Smedley's "cell mates", a writer's discovery of voice, form, and subject in prison / Judith A Scheffler -- The transformation of privilege in the work of Elena Poniatowska / Bell Gale Chevigny -- Marguerite Yourcenar's sexual politics in fiction, 1939 / Judith L. Johnston -- A way of ordering experience, a study of Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Sula / Roberts Sargent -- A voice of authority / Jane Marcus -- Charlotte Delbo, a woman-book / Rosette C. Lamont -- The case of the dangling signifier, phallic imagery in Eudora Welty's "Moon Lake" / Patricia S. Yaeger -- An end to torment, H. D.'s metonymic course / Paul Smith -- Leslie Stephen revisited, a new fragment of Virginia Woolf's "a sketch of the past" / Katherine C. Hill-Miller -- Defeating the false God, Janie's self-determination in Zora Neales Hurston's their eyes were watching God / Gay Wilentz -- The woman warrior, claiming narrative power, recreating female selfhood / Joanne S. Frye -- In search of "ordinary human happiness", rebellion and affirmation in Mary Gordon's novels / Susan Ward. |
| Provenance |
Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt Memorial Collection |
| Subject |
Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Literature -- Women authors. |
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Women and literature -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Women and literature. |
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History. |
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Women authors -- Biography -- Congresses.
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Women authors -- Biography. |
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Littérature -- Femmes écrivains -- Histoire et critique -- Congrès. |
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Femmes et littérature -- 20e siècle -- Congrès. |
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Femmes écrivains -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique -- Congrès. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Kessler-Harris, Alice.
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McBrien, William.
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Hofstra University.
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Twentieth-Century Women Writers' International Conference (1982 : Hofstra University)
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Faith of a (woman) writer. New York : Greenwood Press, 1988 (OCoLC)569385269 |
| ISBN |
0313259569 library binding alkaline paper |
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9780313259562 library binding alkaline paper |
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