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"Using Euripides' play, Helen, as the main point of reference, C. W. Marshall's detailed study expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and provides new interpretations of how Euripides created meaning in performance. Marshall focuses on dramatic structure to show how assumptions held by the ancient audience shaped meaning in Helen and to demonstrate how Euripides' play draws extensively on the satyr play Proteus, which was part of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Structure is presented not as a theoretical abstraction, but as a crucial component of the experience of performance, working with music, the chorus and the other plays in the tetralogy. Euripides' Andromeda in particular is shown to have resonances with Helen not previously described. Arguing that the role of the director is key, Marshall shows that the choices that a director can make about role doubling, gestures, blocking, humour, and masks play a crucial part in forming the meaning of Helen"--

Euripides --- Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature --- Trojan War --- Women and literature --- Tragedy --- Literature and the war --- Tragedy. --- Drama --- Literature and the war. --- Ancient, Classical & Medieval. --- Euripides. --- Helen, --- In literature.

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This book is a study of gender and place in twentieth-century Chicana/o literature and culture, covering the early period of regional writing to contemporary art. Remapping Chicana/o literary and cultural history from the critical regional perspective of the Mexican American Southwest, it uncovers the aesthetics of Chicana/o critical regionalism in the writings of Cleofas Jaramillo, Fray Angélico Chávez, Elena Zamora O’Shea, and Jovita González. In addition to bringing renewed attention to contemporary writers like Richard Rodriguez and introducing the work of Chicana artist Carlota d.Z. EspinoZa, the study also revisits the more recognized work of Américo Paredes, Mario Suárez, Mary Helen Ponce, and Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales to reconsider the aesthetics of gender and place in Chicana/o literature and culture.

Poetry --- Literature --- Spanish-American literature --- literatuur --- gender --- poëzie --- Jaramillo, Cleofas --- Chávez, Angélico --- Zamorá O'Shea, Elena --- González, Jovita --- EspinoZa, Carlota d.Z. --- Suárez, Mario --- Ponce, Mary Helen --- Gonzalez, Rodolfo --- anno 1900-1999 --- Caribbean area --- Latin America

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Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives invites readers to consider both canonical and alternative graphic representations of disability. Some chapters focus on comic superheroes, from lesser-known protagonists like Cyborg and Helen Killer to classics such as Batgirl and Batman; many more explore the amazing range of graphic narratives revolving around disability, covering famous names such as Alison Bechdel and Chris Ware, as well as less familiar artists like Keiko Tobe and Georgia Webber. The volume also offers a broad spectrum of represented disabilities: amputation, autism, blindness, deafness, depression, Huntington's, multiple sclerosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, speech impairment, and spinal injury. A number of the essays collected here show how comics continue to implicate themselves in the objectification and marginalization of persons with disabilities, perpetuating stale stereotypes and stigmas. At the same time, others stress how this medium simultaneously offers unique potential for transforming our understanding of disability in truly profound ways.

Fiction --- American literature --- Literature --- Amerindian literature --- manga --- fantasy --- literatuur --- MS (multiple sclerose) --- autismespectrumstoornis (ASS) --- pijn --- LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex and asexual) --- Chorea van Huntington --- Amerikaanse cultuur --- beeldverhalen --- Superman [Fictitious character] --- Batman [Fictieve figuur] --- Helen Killer [Fictieve figuur] --- Batgirl [Fictieve figuur] --- Cyborg [Fictieve figuur] --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- United States of America

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This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers’ engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across ‘literary’, ‘middlebrow’ and ‘popular’ genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children’s literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of ‘second-wave’ feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women’s writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion. .

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology --- Fiction --- English literature --- Literature --- History --- science fiction --- sociologie --- diaspora --- fantasy --- feminisme --- literatuur --- vrouwen --- gender --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Engelse literatuur --- Christie, Agatha --- Lessing, Doris --- Jameson, Storm --- MacInnes, Helen --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1970-1979 --- Great Britain --- Ireland

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This timely collection engages with representations of women and ageing in literature and visual culture. Acknowledging that cultural conceptions of ageing are constructed and challenged across a variety of media and genres, the editors bring together experts in literature and visual culture to foster a dialogue across disciplines. Exploring the process of ageing in its cultural reflections, refractions and reimaginings, the contributors to Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture analyse how artists, writers, directors and performers challenge, and in some cases reaffirm, cultural constructions of ageing women, as well as give voice to ageing women’s subjectivities. The book concludes with an afterword by Germaine Greer which suggests possible avenues for future research. .

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Mass communications --- Literature --- sociologie --- communicatie --- cultuur --- emancipatie --- literatuur --- vrouwen --- gezin --- gender --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Dunham, Lena --- Fielding, Helen --- Boylan, Clare --- Shaw, Peggy --- Townsend Warner, Sylvia --- Major, Clarence --- O'Connor, Joseph --- Lacey, Suzanne --- Austen, Jane