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ISBN: 128286310X 9786612863103 0773572422 9780773572423 0773529098 9780773528222 9780773529090 0773528229 6612863102 Year: 2005 Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press,
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Building on scholarship, such as feminist criticism, that has contributed to an awareness of the distinctive perspectives on female experience revealed in women's writing, Heller reveals how women authors construct their female protagonists' quests for creative self-expression. By situating these narrative journeys in their own times and cultures, Literary Sisterhoods shows how they contribute to a common tradition that speaks to readers today.
Women and literature. --- Fiction --- Women artists in literature. --- Women authors in literature. --- Literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women and literature --- Women artists in literature --- Women authors in literature --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- Femmes et littérature. --- Écrits de femmes --- Femmes artistes dans la littérature. --- Écrivaines dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Femmes et litterature. --- Ecrits de femmes --- Femmes artistes dans la litterature. --- Ecrivaines dans la litterature.
ISBN: 1282851772 9786612851773 0773562621 9780773562622 0773507817 9780773507814 Year: 1990 Publisher: Montreal London Buffalo McGill-Queen's University Press
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"The image of the Jew in English literature, as in the Western imagination, has at its base the figure of the Christ-killer. All representations of the Jew in Christian culture are constructed in the light of this irreducible definition." -- from the introduction In a collection of insightful critical essays, Derek Cohen, Deborah Heller, and the contributing authors explore the different ways in which writers of English literature have amplified, varied, or denied this archetypical perception. While the authors approach this subject from diverse perspectives, the essays are unified by an awareness of the common tradition out of which representations of Jews have developed and illustrate the tradition's continuity and modifications. Studying the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Joyce, and a selection of texts from the ninth to the sixteenth century, the essays show how constructs of Jewishness fit into a writer's pre-existing concerns and patterns of representation and how even later, more favourable depictions are over-simplified reactions to this attitude. Some of the authors directly address the question of what constitutes anti-semitism in a literary work. All take into account the social and historical contexts in which the individual works took shape. Their main concern, however, is not to produce a social history but to illustrate how even the greatest writers draw on stereotypes embedded in the popular imagination and to focus on the internal dynamics of individual works, thereby recuperating classical portrayals within a contemporary critical perspective.
English literature --- Jews in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism
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ISBN: 9781409434665 Year: 2015 Publisher: Aldershot [etc.] Ashgate
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