| Description |
xiv, 453 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-426) and index. |
| Contents |
Portrait of the artist as a young woman: H.D.'s rescriptions of Joyce, Lawrence, and Pound / Susan Stanford Friedman -- Power and poetic vocation in Adrienne Rich's The dream of a common language / Lynda K. Bundtzen -- Lyric voice and sexual difference in Elizabeth Bishop / Kathleen Brogan -- The pattern of birds and beasts: Willa Cather and women's art / Josephine Donovan -- Anita Brookner: woman writer as reluctant feminist / Margaret Diane Stetz -- Incomplete stories: womanhood and artistic ambition in Daniel Deronda and Between the acts / Alison Booth -- When privilege is no protection: the woman artist in Quicksand and The house of mirth / Linda Dittmar -- The artist manqué in the fiction of Rebecca Harding / Jane Atteridge Rose -- From shadow to substance: the empowerment of the artist figure in Lee Smith's fiction / Katherine Kearns -- Through the flower: Judy Chicago's conflict between a woman-centered vision and the male artist hero / Mara R. Witzling -- The Alberta trilogy: Cora Sandel's Norwegian Künstlerroman and American feminist literary discourse / Linda Hunt -- The hysteric and the mimic: reading Christa Wolf's The quest for Christa T. / Renate Voris --"Sisters in arms": the warrior construct in writings by contemporary U.S. women of color / Mary K. DeShazer -- The politics of the woman artist in Isabel Allende's The house of the spirits / Z. Nelly Martínez -- Margaret Drabble's The waterfall: new system, new morality / Gayle Greene -- "Retreat with honour": Mary Cholmondeley's presentation of the new woman artist in Red pottage / Ann L. Ardis -- Aurora Leigh: an epical Ars poetica / Holly A. Laird -- "I must not settle into a figure": the woman artist in Virginia Woolf's writings / Pamela L. Caughie -- Re-visioning creativity: Audre Lorde's refiguration of Eros as the black mother within / Estella Lauter. |
| Subject |
Feminist literary criticism.
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Feminism and literature.
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Women artists in literature.
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| Added Author |
Jones, Suzanne Whitmore.
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| ISBN |
0812230892 (acid-free paper) |
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0812213432 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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