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Merry Murderers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Merry Murderers

This book explores the different trends and the various changes in the representational history of femmes fatales within twentieth century American culture. While providing precedents, discussing the Western cultural history of this iconic female figure, as well as presenting the cultural and theoretical debates surrounding ‘her,’ the major focus lies in Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story entitled Chicago and how its diachronic and transmedial revivals contributed to this debate and what kind of an interpretation it provided of the lethal woman. Through a cultural, historical, literary and cinematic excavation this book argues that the story of Chicago produces a unique kind of deathly wom...

Growing Up a Woman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Growing Up a Woman

This book explores contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, showing that the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism remains of equal importance in the era of postfeminism. The female Bildung narrative has acquired an important position in twentieth – and twenty-first century literature through its continuing depiction of female self-discovery and emancipation as a process of negotiating the traditional divisions of female and male roles in relation to the private and public spaces. Recognizing the seminal contribution of feminist criticism to the definition of the genre and the role of feminist cultural pro...

Brno Studies in English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 774

Brno Studies in English

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Space, Gender, and the Gaze in Literature and Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Space, Gender, and the Gaze in Literature and Art

This volume explores how the concepts of space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It discusses the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts. The arguments within the book connect core theoretical issues of gender and space to well-known literary texts and contexts, like the poems of Sylvia Plath and the novels of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison and Cormack McCarthy. The collection will be of interest to university students and instructors alike, as an extended introduction to critical and theoretical discourses on gender and space.

The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings

Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how a network of allusions to travel writing and art history books influenced Wharton’s representations of architectural and natural spaces. The book demonstrates Wharton’s complex relationship to works of art historians (John Ruskin, Émile Mâle, Arthur C. Porter) and travel authors (Wolfgang Goethe, Henry Adams, Henry James) in the trajectory of her travel writing. Kovács surveys how the acknowledgment of Wharton’s sources sheds light both on the author’s model of aesthetic understanding and scenic architectural descriptions, and how the shock of the Great War changed Wharton’s travel destinations but not her symbolic view of architecture as a mediator of things past. Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture provide a new key to her travel writings.

A szörényi bánság és Szörény vármegye története
  • Language: hu
  • Pages: 492

A szörényi bánság és Szörény vármegye története

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1877
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Funny Girls
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Funny Girls

For several generations, comics were regarded as a boys’ club—created by, for, and about men and boys. In the twenty-first century, however, comics have seen a rise of female creators, characters, and readers. While this sudden presence of women and girls in comics is being regarded as new and noteworthy, the observation is not true for the genre’s entire history. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the medium was enjoyed equally by both sexes, and girls were the protagonists of some of the earliest, most successful, and most influential comics. In Funny Girls: Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics, Michelle Ann Abate examines the important but long-overl...

A képek politikája
  • Language: hu
  • Pages: 290

A képek politikája

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Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-01
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  • Publisher: Oxbow Books

The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology can identify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but little interest has been expressed in investigating and understanding the cultural aspects of the diseases identified. Such assemblages represent the cumulative effects of human attitudes, decisions and influences regarding the keeping, care, treatment, neglect and exploitation of animals which result in a range of conditions, non-infectious diseases and injuries that can be recognised on ancient ...