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ISBN: 1421441977 9781421441986 1421441969 1421441985 9781421441962 9781421441979 Year: 2021 Publisher: Baltimore

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"The book traces the early history of the self-help genre and the literary depiction of ambition in Victorian British fiction. Stories of hardworking characters who bring themselves out of rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. In chapters featuring the works of novelists, the author demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition and problematized it as well"--

En tono mayor : relatos de formación de protagonista femenina en Hispanoamérica
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ISBN: 9562600823 Year: 1996 Publisher: Santiago de Chile : Cuarto proprio,

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"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Intimate and authentic economies : the American self-made man from Douglass to Chaplin
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ISBN: 1135924589 041586142X 1280075953 0203504577 9780203504574 9786610075959 6610075956 9780415968690 0415968690 9781135924584 9781135924539 1135924538 9781135924577 1135924570 9780415861427 0415968690 020360606X Year: 2003 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book examines numerous texts from Reconstruction-era autobiographies to the films of the 1930s.


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The Fiction of Gloria Naylor : Houses and Spaces of Resistance
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ISBN: 1572337389 9781572337381 9781572337220 1572337222 Year: 2010 Publisher: Knoxville : Baltimore, Md. : University of Tennessee Press, Project MUSE,

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The Fiction of Gloria Naylor is one of the very first critical studies of this acclaimed writer. Including an insightful interview with Naylor and focusing on her first four novels, the book situates various acts of insurgency throughout her work within a larger framework of African American opposition to hegemonic authority. But what truly distinguishes this volume is its engagement with African American vernacular forms and twentieth-century political movements.In her provocative analysis, Maxine Lavon Montgomery argues that Naylor constantly attempts to reconfigure the home


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Principle and propensity : experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman
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ISBN: 9781611173659 1611173655 9781611173642 1611173647 1322077134 Year: 2014 Publisher: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press,

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Reimagining the coming-of-age literary tradition in the U.S. and U.K. within dynamic theological contexts.


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Unlived lives in English literature : a typological study
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ISBN: 9783825346621 3825346625 Year: 2019 Publisher: Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter

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"If I had acted differently, then ..." Most human beings indulge in counterfactual thought experiments at one point or another. For the fictional characters analysed in this book, they are a central preoccupation. The characters obsessively review their past, looking at a road they did not take, pondering on a life they did not live. Drawing on narratology, theories of counterfactuality and the study of motifs, the book suggests a typology of unlived lives, which is based on more than fifty works from the nineteenth century to the present. In addition, the book offers seven readings. These focus on texts in which the motif of the unlived life features in an especially characteristic or challenging manner: Henry James's "The Diary of a Man of Fifty" and "The Jolly Corner," Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway," Vita Sackville-West's "All Passion Spent," Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape" and Alice Munro's "Carried Away" and "Dolly."--Back cover.


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Before queer theory : victorian aestheticism and the self
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ISBN: 1421431491 9781421431499 9781421431475 1421431475 9781421431482 1421431483 Year: 2019 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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Late Victorian aesthetes were dedicated to the belief that an artwork's value derived solely from its beauty, rather than any moral or utilitarian purpose. Works by these queer artists have rarely been taken seriously as contributions to the theories of sexuality or aesthetics. But in Before Queer Theory, Dustin Friedman argues that aestheticism deploys its "art for art's sake" rhetoric to establish a nascent sense of sexual identity and community.Friedman makes the case for a claim rarely articulated in either Victorian or modern culture: that intellectually, creatively, and ethically, being queer can be an advantage not in spite but because of social hostility toward nonnormative desires. Showing how aesthetes-among them Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, and Michael Field-harnessed the force that Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel called "the negative," Friedman reveals how becoming self-aware of one's sexuality through art can be both liberating and affirming of humanity's capacity for subjective autonomy.Challenging one of the central precepts of modern queer theory-the notion that the heroic subject of Enlightenment thought is merely an effect of discourse and power-Friedman develops a new framework for understanding the relationship between desire and self-determination. He also articulates an innovative, queer notion of subjective autonomy that encourages reflecting critically on one's historical moment and envisioning new modes of seeing, thinking, and living that expand the boundaries of social and intellectual structures. Before Queer Theory is an audacious reimagining that will appeal to scholars with interests in Victorian studies, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, and art history.

Allende, Buitrago, Luiselli : aproximaciones teóricas al concepto del "Bildungsroman" femenino
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ISBN: 0820444723 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Lang,


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Le voyage au Moyen Âge : Description du monde et quête individuelle
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ISBN: 9791032001042 9791036577314 Year: 2021 Publisher: Aix-en-Provence : Presses universitaires de Provence,

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Les recherches sur les récits de voyage médiévaux connaissent actuellement un renouveau des perspectives envisagées, qui situent ces textes dans des contextes et des problématiques renouvelés. Les dix contributions présentes dans ce volume explorent deux pistes : d’une part les liens entre récits de voyage et géographie, d’autre part la place de ces récits dans le développement d’une quête du « moi » au cours du Moyen Âge. La frontière entre récit viatique et traité de géographie est floue et les définitions de ces deux domaines demeurent poreuses tout au long du Moyen Âge. De la même façon, la place que tient l’écriture du voyage dans la naissance de l’autobiographie est significative et l’histoire de ces deux genres littéraires se croise fréquemment. Ces deux aspects, souvent opposés, rarement rassemblés, ne sont cependant pas antinomiques, mais méritent d’être examinés de façon conjointe. En effet, le voyageur, confronté à des lieux et des expériences nouveaux, qui viennent enrichir les connaissances géographiques, est aussi amené à un retour sur soi et à un questionnement sur son identité.

Labor pains : Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott on work and the woman question
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ISBN: 1862876967 1280178191 020350545X 9780203505458 9780415969949 0415969948 9780415803502 0415803500 0415967929 0203579178 0415969948 9780415967921 9781135884895 9781135884840 9781135884888 1135884889 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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This book explores the importance of work and its role in defining and developing the self. Maibor reveals how the writings of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott delve into notions of equality through this emphasis on labor. In doing so she challenges the traditional view of Emerson as unconcerned with societal issues, and opens the work of Hawthorne and Alcott to new feminist readings.

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American literature --- Feminism and literature --- Women --- Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature. --- Occupations in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Work in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History and criticism. --- History --- Employment --- Education --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- Alcott, Louisa May, --- Alcott, Louisa May --- Alcott, Louisa M. --- Alcott, L. M. --- Alkūt, Luwīzā --- Aunt Jo's scrap-bag, Author of --- Aunt Kipp, Author of --- Author of An old-fashioned girl --- Author of Aunt Jo's scrap-bag --- Author of Aunt Kipp --- Author of Eight cousins --- Author of Hospital sketches --- Author of Kitty's class-day --- Author of Little men --- Author of Little women --- Author of Moods --- Author of Psyche's art --- Author of Work --- Barnard, A. M. --- Eight cousins, Author of --- Hospital sketches, Author of --- Kitty's class-day, Author of --- Little men, Author of --- Little women, Author of --- Moods, Author of --- Old-fashioned girl, Author of --- Olʹkot, Luiza --- Psyche's art, Author of --- Work, Author o, --- Олкотт, Луиза Мэй --- אלקוט, לואיזה מיי, --- ألكوت، لويزا مي --- ルイザメイオルコット, --- アルコツトルイザメイ, --- オルコツトルイザメイ, --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Gotorn, Nataniėlʹ --- Hotorn, Natanijel --- Huo-sang --- Huo-sang, Na-sa-ni-erh --- Hothorna, Netheniyala --- Готорн, Натаниэль --- האטארן, נאטאניעל, --- Huosang --- Huosang, Nasa'nier --- Nasa'nier Huosang --- 霍桑, --- 霍桑, 纳撒尼尔, --- 纳撒尼尔 霍桑, --- Hās̲ūran, Nātānīl --- Hās̲ūrn, Nātānīl --- هاثورن، ناتانيل --- Imarsana, Rāfa Vālḍō, --- Emerson, R. W. --- Emerson, Waldo, --- Emerson, R. Waldo --- Ėmerson, Ralʹf Uoldo, --- Ai-mo-sheng, --- Emarsan̲, --- אמרסון, רלף ולדו, --- עמערסון, ראלף וואלדא, --- Political and social views. --- Australian Labor Party. --- New South Wales --- Politics and government --- Labor Party (Australia). --- NSW Labor --- New South Wales Labor --- NSW --- NPV --- N.S.W. --- Nouvelle-Galles du Sud --- N.-G. du S. --- Nieu-Suid-Wallis --- Nīwe Sūþwealas --- Yeni Cänubi Uels --- Sin Lâm Wales --- Штат Новы Паўднёвы Уэльс --- Shtat Novy Paŭdni︠o︡vy Uėlʹs --- Новы Паўднёвы Уэльс --- Novy Paŭdni︠o︡vy Uėlʹs --- Нови Южен Уелс --- Novi I︠U︡zhen Uels --- Novi Južni Wales --- Sukembre-Nevez --- Nova Gal·les del Sud --- С̧ĕнĕ Кăнтăр Уэльс --- Śĕnĕ Kăntăr Uėlʹs --- Nový Jižní Wales --- De Cymru Newydd --- Neusüdwales --- Uus-Lõuna-Wales --- Νέα Νότια Ουαλία --- Nea Notia Oyalia --- Nueva Gales del Sur --- Novsudkimrio --- Novsudkimrujo --- NSK --- Hegoaldeko Gales Berria --- Bretyn Yiass Noa --- Nova Gales do Sur --- Sîn Nàm Vî-ngì-sṳ̂-chû --- Ног Хуссар Уэльс --- Nog Khussar Uėlʹs --- Nýja Suður-Wales --- Nuovo Galles del Sud --- ניו סאות' ויילס --- Nyu Saʼut Ṿails --- State of New South Wales --- Nova Cambria Australis --- Jaundienvidvelsa --- Naujasis Pietų Velsas --- Neuvo Galles do Sud --- Új-Dél-Wales --- Нов Јужен Велс --- Nov Južen Vels --- НЈВ --- NJV --- Valesa Atsimo Vaovao --- Shinė Ȯmnȯd Vėlʹs --- Nieuw-Zuid-Wales --- ニューサウスウェールズ州 --- Nyū Sausu Wēruzu-shū --- Nyūsausūēruzushū --- Nyū Sausu Uēruzushū --- ニューサウスウェールズ --- Nyū Sausu Wēruzu --- Nyūsausūēruzu --- Nyū Sausu Uēruzu --- Nyuu Sauth Wiels --- Niiw Sowth Waayls --- Nòva Galas del Sud --- Nòva Galas dau Sud --- Nuòva Galas dau Sud --- Nava Galas deu Sud --- Nowa Południowa Walia --- Nova Gales do Sul --- Noul Wales de Sud --- Nova Valisa dal Sid --- Новый Южный Уэльс --- Novyĭ I︠U︡zhnyĭ Uėlʹs --- San︠g︡a Soghu̇ru̇u̇ U̇ėlʹs --- New Sooth Wales --- Nový Južný Wales --- Нови Јужни Велс --- Novi Južni Vels --- Uusi Etelä-Wales --- Nya Sydwales --- Bagong Timog Gales --- Yeni Güney Galler --- Новий Південний Уельс --- Novyĭ Pivdennyĭ Uelʹs --- Novo Gales del Sud --- Gallera Verociya Newi

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