Writing the Woman Artist : Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture /

Writing the Woman Artist is a collection of essays that explore the ways women writers portray women painters, sculptors, writers, and performers.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jones, Suzanne W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Temas:
Feminist literary criticism.
Feminism and literature.
Women artists in literature.
Critique féministe.
Femmes artistes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Deconstructing the Fathers' Tradition
  • 1. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: H.D.'s Rescriptions of Joyce, Lawrence, and Pound
  • 2. Power and Poetic Vocation in Adrienne Rich's The Dream of a Common Language
  • 3. Lyric Voice and Sexual Difference in Elizabeth Bishop
  • Part II. Thinking Back Through Our Mothers
  • 4. The Pattern of Birds and Beasts: Willa Cather and Women's Art
  • 5. Anita Brookner: Woman Writer as Reluctant Feminist
  • 6. Incomplete Stories: Womanhood and Artistic Ambition in Daniel Deronda and Between the Acts
  • Part III. Confronting the Dilemma of Role and Vocation
  • 7. When Privilege Is No Protection: The Woman Artist in Quicksand and The House of Mirth
  • 8. The Artist Manque in the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis
  • 9. From Shadow to Substance: The Empowerment of the Artist Figure in Lee Smith's Fiction
  • 10. Through the Flower: Judy Chicago's Conflict Between a Woman-Centered Vision and the Male Artist Hero
  • 11. The Alberta Trilogy: Cora Sandel's Norwegian Künstlerroman and American Feminist Literary Discourse
  • 12. The Hysteric and the Mimic: Reading Christa Wolf's The Quest for Christa?.
  • Part IV. Rethinking the Politics of Art
  • 13. "Sisters in Arms": The Warrior Construct in Writings by Contemporary U.S. Women of Color
  • 14. The Politics of the Woman Artist in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits
  • 15. Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall·. New System, New Morality
  • 16. "Retreat with Honour": Mary Cholmondeley's Presentation of the New Woman Artist in Red Pottage
  • Part V. Reconceiving Feminist Aesthetics
  • 17. Aurora Leigh: An Epical Ars Poetica
  • 18. "I must not settle into a figure": The Woman Artist in Virginia Woolf's Writings
  • 19. Re-visioning Creativity: Audre Lorde's Refiguration of Eros as the Black Mother Within
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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