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Author | : Naghmeh Varghaiyan |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2021-04-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3838215036 |
Download The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women’s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. Varghaiyan reveals how the rhetoric of women’s humour enables Pym’s female characters to survive in the patriarchal culture and to unsettle it.
Author | : Naghmeh Varghaiyan |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
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Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9783838275031 |
Download The Rhetoric of Women's Humour in Barbara Pym's Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this study of three of Barbara Pym's novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women's humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. Varghaiyan reveals how the rhetoric of women's humour enables Pym's female characters to survive in the patriarchal culture and to unsettle it.
Author | : Robin R. Joyce |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2023-02-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1527589293 |
Download The Reality behind Barbara Pym's Excellent Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book analyses Barbara Pym’s published and unpublished work through a new image, that of the troublesome woman. It details the political nature of her work, highlighting her feminist ideas which are hidden in village-like settings and revealed by troublesome women. By exploring Pym’s written work, published, and unpublished, diaries and notebooks, the book shows that this material gives credence to Hilary Pym’s interpretation of her sister as a complex person.
Author | : JoAnna Stephens Mink |
Publisher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780879725242 |
Download Joinings and Disjoinings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Joinings and Disjoinings illustrates the importance of marriage or singleness in short stories and novels and suggests the diverse perspectives the topic can provide on specific works and on analysis of the cultural importance of marriage and marital status. Essays discuss canonical and lesser-known works, providing social, historical, and literary context.
Author | : Barbara Pym |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2006-12-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101666250 |
Download Excellent Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.
Author | : Sondra Melzer |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download The Rhetoric of Rage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Rhetoric of Rage explores the treatment of women from a contemporary feminist perspective and reveals the ways in which Parker's brittle humor reflects muted anger toward a patriarchal society. Through close examination of the texts, the work investigates the hidden discontents, the buried conflicts of women's lives and exposes the forces at work both implicitly and explicitly that shape their existence. The book locates links between the author's life and the fiction and elucidates the ways in which Parker lived her life in fiction and her fiction in life.
Author | : Janice Rossen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Gender identity in literature |
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Author | : Robin Rosemary Joyce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Feminism in literature |
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Download The Troublesome Woman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This dissertation offers a revisionist account of Barbara Pym's fiction written between 1935 and 1979. It is an analysis of Pym's published work and unpublished manuscripts. The thesis contends that Pym's writing has a significant feminist dimension in the way it represents women characters and challenges conventions about women's role. Pym was a consummate observer. It is argued that, consciously or unconsciously, she interpreted her observations from a feminist perspective. Unlike post-1970s writers, she was ill equipped to place her observations into a feminist framework. Their familiarity with a body of feminist theory gave their work recognisable markers through which to interpret their feminist understandings. Re-reading Pym's work through some of those understandings demonstrates that, although she has no apparent feminist framework, many of the issues she raises and the way in which she approaches them, are feminist. It is argued that Pym continues some of Jane Austen's practices in her use of irony and mockery; confounding expectations of male and female behaviour; uttering truisms to highlight inconsistencies in behaviour; and using a conforming woman to contrast with a troublesome woman. This thesis argues that the arguments for a feminist re-reading of Austen's work are legitimately applied to re-reading Pym's texts. Until the 1970s, Pym also wrote subversive texts in inhospitable circumstances. The familiar conservative village setting or context for much of her fiction is a cover for the challenging exploration of the unequal nature of relationships between women and men. In the reception of Pym's fiction, the village has often been mistaken for the whole interest of the work. This thesis contends that Pym's techniques provided a cosy cover for representations of women and men that disturbed conventional pieties about marriage and women's social role. Pym would not describe herself as a feminist writer. However, Pym gives women's stories credibility, supports the notion of spinsters who choose to remain unmarried and observes friendships between women and realises them in her fiction. Pym's work is examined against feminist criteria. She gives what I refer to as the ""troublesome woman"" a central place in her narratives; her work destabilises the argument that women have inherently different characteristics from men and that nurturing is central to women's lives; binary feminist ideas are a recurring feature; and she features some aspects of the politics of difference. Pym's work is also compared with Fay Weldon and Zoe Fairbairns' acknowledged feminist work. Pym's feminist approach culminates in her 1970s novels, An Academic Question and Quartet in Autumn. --provided by Candidate.
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Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Dissertation abstracts |
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Download American Doctoral Dissertations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Download Critical Survey of Long Fiction: V.S. Pritchett-August Strindberg Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle