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Women, Feminist Identity, and Society in the 1980's
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Women, Feminist Identity, and Society in the 1980's

The general objective of this volume is to present and discuss different modes of existence in women s texts and feminist identity in political and poetic discourse on the one hand, and to analyze the factors which determine differing relationships between women and society, and which result in specific forms of identity on the other. The essays in this volume explore language, gender, mass media, sexuality, class and social change, women s identity as Blacks and in the Third World as well as the nature of domination, feminine criticism and female creativity. The volume opens with a challenging question by the feminist poet Adrienne Rich, Who is We?

Women, Feminist Identity and Society in the 1980s
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

Women, Feminist Identity and Society in the 1980s

The general objective of this volume is to present and discuss different modes of existence in women’s texts and feminist identity in political and poetic discourse on the one hand, and to analyze the factors which determine differing relationships between women and society, and which result in specific forms of identity on the other. The essays in this volume explore language, gender, mass media, sexuality, class and social change, women’s identity as Blacks and in the Third World as well as the nature of domination, feminine criticism and female creativity. The volume opens with a challenging question by the feminist poet Adrienne Rich, ‘Who is We?’

Applied Correspondence Analysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Applied Correspondence Analysis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-06
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  • Publisher: SAGE

This volume provides readers with a simple, non-technical introduction to correspondence analysis (CA), a technique for summarily describing the relationships among categorical variables in large tables. It begins with the history and logic of CA. The author shows readers the steps to the analysis: category profiles and masses are computed, the distances between these points calculated and the best-fitting space of n-dimensions located. There are glossaries on appropriate programs from SAS and SPSS for doing CA and the book concludes with a comparison of CA and log-linear models.

The Bakhtin Circle Today
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

The Bakhtin Circle Today

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-04-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

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Snow on the Cane Fields
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Snow on the Cane Fields

Snow on the Cane Fields was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In a probing analysis of creole women's writing over the past century, Judith Raiskin explores the workings and influence of cultural and linguistic colonialism. Tracing the transnational and racial meanings of creole identity, Raiskin looks at four English-speaking writers from South Africa and the Caribbean: Olive Schreiner, Jean Rhys, Michelle Cliff, and Zoë Wicomb. She examines their work in light of the discourses of their times: nineteenth-centu...

What is Translation?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

What is Translation?

An investigation into the state of translation studies which looks ahead at the direction in which the author sees the field moving. Included are reviews of the work of translation theorists. A volume in a series which aims to present a broad spectrum of thinking on translation.

Realism as Resistance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Realism as Resistance

This book explores the fluid boundaries between realism and romanticism, while considering this oscillation between discourses as the legacy of the Quijote to the nineteenth-century Spanish novel. Furthermore, there are studies of characters who act as authors in Benito Perez Galdos's first series of Episodios Nacionales, Pio Baroja's La lucha por la vida, and Leopoldo Alas (Clarin)'s La Regenta. For many realists, romanticism has negative associations: quixotism, exaggeration, impracticality, and femininity or effeminacy.

Ramón María Del Valle-Inclán
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Ramón María Del Valle-Inclán

"This book is a collection of eleven essays devoted to the work of Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). Long the recipient of critical analyses from various perspectives, Valle-Inclan's writing has nevertheless been virtually neglected in the gender-based criticism that has given rise to important studies of his contemporaries in other European literatures. This means that his diverse female characters have not been fully examined, that many scholars continue to consider him an unqualified misogynist, and that a marked effort to surmount gender constraints, present throughout his work, has not been acknowledged, much less explicated. This lack of study is intimately related to a much broader ...

Sacred Realism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

Sacred Realism

In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noël Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative.

Notable Hispanic American Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 502

Notable Hispanic American Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: VNR AG

Contains short biographies of three hundred Hispanic American women who have achieved national or international prominence in a variety of fields.