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Andrew Radford The lost girls
Demeter-Persephone and the literary imagination, 1850-1930
'The lost girl' analyses a number of British writers between 1850 and 1930 and the (shifting) influence and role of the Persephone myth.. In this myth Demeter sacrificed her daughter Kore-Persephone to the God of the Dead. This book, in addition to scrutinising canonical and less well-known texts by male authors such as Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence, also focusses on unjustly neglected women writers - Mary Webb and Mary Butts. The texts are also placed in relation to Victorian archaeologists,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 356 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2007
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History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe
junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries
Non-fictie
Engels | 522 pagina's | Benjamins, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2007
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The abject of desire
the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in contemporary literature and culture
Non-fictie
Engels | 309 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2007
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Joanne Sayner Women without a past?
German autobiographical writings and fascism
Contains autobiographies written by women who experienced Nazism from different perspectives: Elfriede Brüning, Hilde Huppert, Greta Kuckhoff, Elisabeth Langgässer, Melita Maschmann, Inge Scholl and Grete Weil. This book examines autobiography as a form of writing at the centre of debates on the 'self', 'truth' and 'history'.
Non-fictie
Engels | 381 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2007
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