Writing the Woman Artist : : Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture / / Suzanne W. Jones.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 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 Τ.
- 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
- 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