Women, the Family, and Policy

Women, the Family, and Policy
Author: Esther Ngan-ling Chow
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1994-06-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791417867

The authors highlight how structural circumstances in countries with various degrees of industrialization are associated with specific policies. The analyses of women’s experiences reveal the variety of ways in which private patriarchy in families combines with public patriarchy in economies and states to create a system of domination which subordinates women. The authors detail how gender is constructed under specific political, economic, and cultural circumstances, and seek to understand how state policies with differing sensitivities to women’s issues have produced mixed outcomes for women and their families in the process of economic development.

The Rhetoric of Fiction

The Rhetoric of Fiction
Author: Wayne C. Booth
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 573
Release: 2010-05-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226065596

The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied author," "the postulated reader," and "the unreliable narrator"—have become part of the standard critical lexicon. For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years—two decades that Booth describes as "the richest in the history of the subject."

Characterization in the Gospels

Characterization in the Gospels
Author: David Rhoads
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781841270043

This volume examines characterization in the four Gospels and in the Sayings Gospel Q. Peter in Matthew, Lazarus in John, and Jesus as Son of Man in Q are examples of the characters studied. The general approach is narrative-critical. At the same time, each contribution takes special effort to widen the scope beyond the narrated world to include the text's ideological and real-life setting as well as its effective history. New ways of doing narrative criticism are thus proposed. The concluding essay by David Rhoads delineates the development and envisions the future of narrative criticism in Gospel studies.

The English Novel, 1700-1740

The English Novel, 1700-1740
Author: Robert Letellier
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2003-02-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0313016909

The English novel written between 1700 and 1740 remains a comparatively neglected area. In addition to Daniel Defoe, whose Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders are landmarks in the history of English fiction, many other authors were at work. These included such women as Penelope Aubin, Jane Barker, Mary Davys, and Eliza Haywood, who made a considerable contribution to widening the range of emotional responses in fiction. These authors, and many others, continued writing in the genres inherited from the previous century, such as criminal biographies, the Utopian novel, the science fictional voyage, and the epistolary novel. This annotated bibliography includes entries for these works and for critical materials pertinent to them. The volume first seeks to establish the existing studies of the era, along with anthologies. It then provides entries for a wide-ranging selection of works which cover fictional, theoretical, historical, political, and cultural topics, to provide a comprehensive background to the unfolding and understanding of prose fiction in the early 18th century. This is followed by an alphabetical listing of novels, their editions, and any critical material available on each. The next section provides a chronological record of significant and enduring works of fiction composed or translated in this period. The volume concludes with extensive indexes.

Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835

Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835
Author: Jacqueline Pearson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1999-05-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521584396

The first broad overview and detailed analysis of female reading audiences in this period.

Henry Fielding's Novels and the Classical Tradition

Henry Fielding's Novels and the Classical Tradition
Author: Nancy A. Mace
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780874135855

In this study, author Nancy A. Mace rectifies the lack of scholarly attention given Henry Fielding's use of the classical tradition in his novels, periodical essays, and miscellaneous writings. Although scholars have extensively studied the affinities between Henry Fielding's novels and such modern genres as the romance, travel literature, and criminal biography, they have paid surprisingly little attention to his use of the classical tradition in developing both his narrative theory and practice.

Irony's Edge

Irony's Edge
Author: Linda Hutcheon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134937547

The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. It sets out, for the first time, a sustained, clear analysis of the theory and the political contexts of irony, using a wide range of references from contemporary culture. Examples extend from Madonna to Wagner, from a clever quip in conversation to a contentious exhibition in a museum. Irony's Edge outlines and then challenges all the major existing theories of irony, providing the most comprehensive and critically challengin theory of irony to date.

Theater and World

Theater and World
Author: Jonathan Hart
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2021-11-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000389723

First published in 1992, Theater and World is a detailed exploration of Shakespeare’s representation of history and how it affects the relation between theatre and world. The book focuses primarily on the Second Tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, and Henry V) and includes a wealth of analysis and interpretation of the plays. In doing so, it explores a wide range of topics, including the relation between literary and theatrical representations and the world; the nature of illusion and reality; genre; the connection between history and fiction (especially plays); historiography and literary criticism or theory; poetry and philosophy; and irony, both rhetorical and philosophical. Theater and World continues to have lasting relevance for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare’s words and his representation of history in particular.