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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
Writing the Woman Artist is a collection of essays that explore the ways women writers portray women painters, sculptors, writers, and performers |
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In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016) |
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Feminist literary criticism.
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Feminism and literature.
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Women artists in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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Feminism and literature
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Feminist literary criticism
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Women artists in literature
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Suzanne W
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| ISBN |
9781512809596 |
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1512809594 |
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