Women Poets of Spain, 1860-1990

Women Poets of Spain, 1860-1990
Author: John Chapman Wilcox
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780252065590

This is the first volume-in English or Spanish-to analyze the work of the principal women poets of Modern Spain. In it, John Wilcox draws on recent feminist critical theory and shows how Spanish poetry by women is not just a modern phenomenon but an ignored tradition whose roots reach back to the very beginnings of poetry of the Iberian Peninsula.

P/herversions

P/herversions
Author: Jill Robbins
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838755679

Ana Rossetti is a unique phenomenon in Spanish culture, a performer and a writer who resists categorization within any single genre, gender, period, or medium. One of the most exciting Spanish writers of the last twenty-five years, Rossetti can be both transgressive and playful, employing erotic signs (fetishes, taboos) derived from fashion, literature, design, pornography, psychology, theater, drag, and Catholicism to destabilize critical, analytic, political, social, and gender categories. Critics, however, have faced a dilemma that this book seeks to overcome: how to define her work - which bridges high and low cultures and includes poetry, fiction, essay, fashion, drama, children's literature, and opera - without resorting back to the very categories that her own artistic practice questions.

Spanish Women's Writing 1849-1996

Spanish Women's Writing 1849-1996
Author: Catherine Davies
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2000-12-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1847142125

Traces the tradition of Spanish women's writing from the end of the Romantic period until the present day. Professor Davies places the major authors within the changing political, cultural and economic context of women's lives over the past century-and-a-half -- with particular attention to women's accounts of female subjectivity in relation to the Spanish nation-state, government politics, and the women's liberation movement.

Between the Maternal Aegis and the Abyss

Between the Maternal Aegis and the Abyss
Author: Michelle C. Geoffrion-Vinci
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838638903

Rosalia de Castro (1837-85) wrote five volumes of poetry before succumbing to cancer of the uterus at the age of forty-eight. While she is perhaps best known for her more introspective and intimate poetry, Castro's mature works are also highly feminist and political in thematic orientation. This book examines the fascinating system of poetic techniques Castro employs in her works to link the compelling issues surrounding femaleness and identity- both national and individual- to the construction of a system of gendered symbolic language that has been vastly understudied by contemporary scholars.

Spanish contemporary poetry

Spanish contemporary poetry
Author: Diana Cullell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2016-05-16
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1526111926

Spanish contemporary poetry: An anthology presents a selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period, followed by guided and close readings of each poem. The anthology includes poems by twenty-two authors selected according to their literary rigour and with attention to the relevance of their work, a comprehensive introductory study, notes, thorough individual commentaries to the poems, and lists of selected vocabulary and rhetorical terms that provide accessibility to the anthology. The poetic selection is divided into sections and subsections in order to aid its pedagogical intent, covering: the poetry written during the transition to democracy; the emergence of poetry written by women in the 1980s; the Spanish poetic field of the 1990s; the poetry written at the turn of the new millennium; and some of the youngest voices in Spanish poetry today. English-speaking students working in the field of Hispanic literature, but also a more general reader keen on literature written in Spanish language, should thoroughly enjoy this work.

Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World [2 volumes]

Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World [2 volumes]
Author: Tiffany K. Wayne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 805
Release: 2011-10-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313345813

Collecting more than 200 sources in the global history of feminism, this anthology supplies an insightful record of the resistance to patriarchy throughout human history and around the world. From writings by Enheduana in ancient Mesopotamia (2350 BCE) to the present-day manifesto of the Association of Women for Action and Research in Singapore, Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History excerpts more than 200 feminist primary source documents from Africa to the Americas to Australia. Serving to depict "feminism" as much broader—and older—than simply the modern struggle for political rights and equality, this two-volume work provides a more comprehensive and varied record of women's resistance cross-culturally and throughout history. The author's goal is to showcase a wide range of writers, thinkers, and organizations in order to document how resistance to patriarchy has been at the center of social, political, and intellectual history since the infancy of human civilization. This work addresses feminist ideas expressed privately through poetry, letters, and autobiographies, as well as the public and political aspects of women's rights movements.

Mirror, Mirror on the Page

Mirror, Mirror on the Page
Author: W. Michael Mudrovic
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780934223843

This text offers detailed studies of eight works of poetry written by Spanish women in the years following the death of Francisco Franco and the evolution of a democratic government. Each chapter shows how each author defines herself both as a woman and a poet by portraying a female figure in the text of the poem.

Contemporary Spanish Poetry

Contemporary Spanish Poetry
Author: Cecile West-Settle
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838640401

Debicki's illuminating application of varied critical methodologies and theoretical approaches, in books such as Poetry of Discovery and Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century, is reflected in all the essays included in this book."

Nature's Colloquy with the Word

Nature's Colloquy with the Word
Author: Kay Pritchett
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838755662

This goal allies her with poets from Spain's symbolist past, who acknowledge the insufficiency of language yet pursue elusive meaning. Canelo's poetry advances their struggle, since, through a method ecofeminist Carol Bigwood has called "nonlinguistic silent presencing," she is able to finesse an apparent fusion between nature and the word."--Jacket.

Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Jo Labanyi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2010-08-26
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0199208050

This title explores the rich literary history of Spain which resonates with contemporary debates on transnationalism and cultural diversity. It introduces readers to the ways in which Spanish literature has been read in and outside Spain explaining misconceptions, outlining insights of scholarship and suggesting new readings.