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Rereading women : thirty years of exploring our literary traditions
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Rereading women : thirty years of exploring our literary traditions

Author: Sandra M Gilbert
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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A collection of essays that reexamine literature through a feminist gaze from "one of our most versatile and gifted writers" (Joyce Carol Oates).

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sandra M Gilbert
ISBN: 9780393067644 0393067645
OCLC Number: 668194888
Description: xix, 380 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Preface: On hybridity and rereading --
PART I: Finding Atlantis, and growing into feminism. Becoming a feminist together, and apart: notes on collaboration and identity --
Finding Atlantis: thirty years of exploring women's literary traditions in English --
What do feminist critics want? or, A postcard from the volcano --
The education of Henrietta Adams --
A tarantella of theory: Hélène Cixous' and Catherine Clément's newly born woman --
Reflections on a (feminist) discourse of discourse, or Look, Ma, I'm talking! --
PART II: Reading and rereading women's writing. "My name is darkness": the poetry of self-definition --
"A fine, white flying myth": the life/work of Sylvia Plath --
The wayward nun beneath the hill: Emily Dickinson and the mysteries of womanhood --
Jane Eyre and the secrets of furious lovemaking --
The key to happiness: on Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden --"Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?": thoughts on a "Little home-keeping person" --
PART III: Mother rites: maternity, matriarchy, creativity. From patria to matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento --"Life's empty pack": notes toward a literary daughteronomy --
Potent Griselda: male modernists and the Great Mother --
Mother rites: maternity, matriarchy, creativity.
Responsibility: Sandra M. Gilbert.

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