Eclectic ViewsCONTROLLING THE UNCONTROLLABLE: THE FICTION OF ALICE MUNRO. Ildikó de Papp Carrington. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989.DOUBLE TALKING: ESSAYS ON VERBAL AND VISUAL IRONIES IN CANADIAN CONTEMPORARY ART AND LITERATURE. Ed. Linda Hutcheon. Toronto: ECW Press, 1992.RE(DIS)COVERING OUR FOREMOTHERS: NINETEENTH-CENTURY CANADIAN WOMEN WRITERS. Ed. Lorraine McMullen. Reappraisals: Canadian Writers IS. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1990.CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE FICTION OF MARGARET LAURENCE. Ed. Colin Nicholson. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1990.WRITING IN THE FATHER’S HOUSE: THE EMERGENCE OF THE FEMININE IN THE QUEBEC LITERARY TRADITION. Patricia Smart. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.THE PIONEER WOMAN: A CANADIAN CHARACTER TYPE, Elizabeth Thompson. Montreal!Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991.INTRODUCING MARGARET ATWOOD’S SURFACING: A READER’S GUIDE. George Woodcock. Canadian Fiction Studies 4. Toronto: ECW Press, 1990.

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-194
Author(s):  
Ruth Panofsky
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Margaret Laurence ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Character Type ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Critical Approaches

Introduction: A Feminine Enlightenment?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
JoEllen DeLucia
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First And Second Generation

Recent scholarship on the role emotion and sympathy played in the Enlightenment’s mapping of historical progress invites a reconsideration of the women writers who are the subject of this book: Mary Wollstonecraft’s contemporaries, including first- and second-generation Bluestockings and gothic and historical novelists, who are often placed outside a feminist literary tradition because of their endorsement of the feminine and refined emotions she critiques in her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The mid-eighteenth-century explosion of literary, philosophical, and historical narratives that theorized what Scottish Enlightenment philosophers called “the progress of the female sex” not only made gender central to understandings of the civilizing process, but was also shaped by the work of these writers. A Feminine Enlightenment places this argument in conversation with recent work by J.G.A. Pocock and others on multiple Enlightenments, literary scholars on the Scottish Enlightenment, and feminist critics on women writers’ responses to Enlightenment.

Homer's Daughters

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Christa Wolf ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
World War ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
History Of ◽  
Homeric Reception ◽  
First World

This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this understudied strand of the history of Homeric reception over the subsequent century up to the present day, analysing the extraordinary responses to both the Odyssey and the Iliad by women from around the world. The backgrounds of these authors and the genres they employ—memoir, poetry, children’s literature, rap, novels—testify not only to the plasticity of Homeric epic, but also to the widening social classes to whom Homer appeals, and it is unsurprising to see the myriad ways in which women writers across the globe have played their part in the story of Homer’s afterlife. From surrealism to successive waves of feminism to creative futures, Homer’s footprint can be seen in a multitude of different literary and political movements, and the essays in this volume bring an array of critical approaches to bear on the work of authors ranging from H.D. and Simone Weil to Christa Wolf, Margaret Atwood, and Kate Tempest. Students and scholars of classics—as well as those in the fields of translation studies, comparative literature, and women’s writing—will find much to interest them, while the volume’s concluding reflections by Emily Wilson on her new translation of the Odyssey are an apt reminder to all of just how open a text can be, and of how great a difference can be made by a woman’s voice.

scholarly journals Immigration, Immigrants, and the Rights of Canadian Citizens in Historical Perspective. Bangarth, Stephanie D. Voices Raised in Protest: Defending Citizens of Japanese Ancestry in North America, 1942–49. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008 Caccia, Ivana. Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime: Shaping Citizenship Policy, 1939–1945. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010 Champion, C.P. The Strange Demise of British Canada: The Liberals and Canadian Nationalism, 1964–68. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010 Iacovetta, Franca. Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006 Kaprielian-Churchill, Isabel. Like Our Mountains: A History of Armenians in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005 Lambertson, Ross. Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930–1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005 MacLennan, Christopher. Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929–1960. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004 Roy, Patricia E. The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941–67. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008

2011 ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Canadian Nationalism ◽  
Queen's University ◽  
Japanese Ancestry ◽  
Canadian Mosaic

scholarly journals Maïssa Bey : romancière de l’agentivité de femmes Entre réécriture de l’Histoire et invention de soi

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Lamrous
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Right

The study of Maïssa Bey’s novel Surtout ne te retourne pas allows to examine how the Francophone novel represents an earthquake as a poetic, metaphorical and political shockwave. The novel is part of a literary tradition but also shows the singularity of the writing and the engagement of the Algerian novelist Maïssa Bey. It allows to examine the feminine agentivity in the context of the disaster camps in Algeria: from the ravaged space/country emerge the voices of women who enter into resistance to improvise, invent their lives and their identities. The earthquake allows them to free themselves, to take a subversive point of view at society and their status as women in an oppressive patriarchal society. The staged female characters arrogate to themselves the right to reread history and take their destiny back.

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