Author: Antonia WhitePublisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781853814891
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Antonia White Diaries, 1926-57
Author: Antonia WhitePublisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781853814891
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Antonia White Diaries
Author: Antonia WhitePublisher: Viking Adult
ISBN: 9780670839704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The diaries of this flamboyant light of literary London reveal an intelligence as formidable and as tormented as Virginia Woolf's and a life of even greater drama. The sheer excess of her life make these diaries--published only after an extensive legal battle--a literary event. 8 pages of photos.
Daily Modernism
Author: Elizabeth PodnieksPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773568247
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Redrawing established boundaries between genres, Podnieks builds a broad critical and theoretical range on which she maps the diary as an aesthetic work, showing how diaries inscribe the aesthetics of literary modernisms. Drawing on feminist theory, literary history, biography, and personal anecdotes, she argues that the diary is an especially subversive space for women writers. Podnieks details how Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin wrote their diaries under the pretence that they were private, while always intending them to be published. She travelled extensively to examine the original diary manuscripts and offers unique first-hand descriptions of the manuscripts that underscore the artistic intentions of their authors. Daily Modernism contributes to the ongoing feminist revision of literary history and, in its disruption of traditional concepts of "major" and "minor" literary forms, paves the way for a much needed reconsideration of the diary as a valid literary achievement.
Antonia White: 1926-1957
Author: Antonia WhitePublisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Voice of Her Own
Author: Marlene A. SchiwyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684803429
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
As writers such as Virginia Woolf, Audre Lorde, and Anais Nin recognized, keeping a journal is a powerful tool of creative expression and self-healing. In A Voice of Her Own - a companion for both new and longtime diarists - Marlene Schiwy shows that journal writing is the ideal way to find one's individual voice, an opportunity for women to explore feelings, intuitions, perceptions, and ideas often suppressed in our society, and to record the truths of their own experience. Schiwy invites readers to share the journeys other women have made toward selfhood and encourages them to begin a journey of their own. She weaves together passages from published and unpublished journals, from works of literature, psychology, and women's studies with her personal insights. A Voice of Her Own is a treasure chest of inspiration for every woman seeking deeper self-awareness and new outlets for creativity.
Fear of Fifty
Author: Erica JongPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101153423
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Seducing the Demon has introduced Erica Jong to readers who hadn't been born when Fear of Flying was published in 1973. Now one of her finest works of nonfiction -and a New York Times bestseller-is back in print with a new afterword. In Fear of Fifty, a New York Times bestseller when first published in 1994, Erica Jong looks to the second half of her life and "goes right to the jugular of the women who lived wildly and vicariously through Fear of Flying" (Publishers Weekly), delivering highly entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherhood. "What Jong calls a midlife memoir is a slice of autobiography that ranks in honesty, self-perception and wisdom with [works by] Simone de Beauvoir and Mary McCarthy," wrote the Sunday Times (U.K.). "Although Jong's memoir of a Jewish American princess is wittier than either."
Mirabella
Author: The Spectator
Author: Whitaker's Book List
Author: Genre, Trope, Gender
Author: R. Barry RutlandPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886291891
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Northrop Frye embellishes the theory of genre in "Henry James and the Comedy of the Occult." In "The Power of Postmodern Irony," Linda Hutcheon furthers her reputation as a theorist of contemporary culture, and Shirley Neuman investigates gender in writing and reading in "Autobiography, Mothers' Bodies, the Reproduction of Mothering."