1.

Record Nr.

UNICASUBO0249743

Autore

Vanderspoel, John

Titolo

Themistius and the Imperial Court : oratory, civic duty, and Paideia from Constantius to Theodosius / John Vanderspoel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 1995

ISBN

0472104853

Descrizione fisica

XII, 280 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

185

Soggetti

Temistio

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910149376703321

Autore

Missler Heike

Titolo

The cultural politics of chick lit : popular fiction, postfeminism and representation / / Heike Missler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-23531-2

1-315-62653-5

1-317-23532-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 pages)

Collana

Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature ; ; 18

Disciplina

813/.6099287

Soggetti

Chick lit, American - History and criticism

Chick lit, English - History and criticism

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Women - Books and reading - United States - History - 21st century

Women - Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 21st century

Women and literature - United States - History - 21st century

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 21st century

Single women in literature

Young women in literature

Women in literature



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Contexts -- pt. II. Texts.

Sommario/riassunto

Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (1997). Branded by their pink or pastel-coloured book covers, chick-lit novels have been a highly successful and ubiquitous product of women's popular culture since the late 1990s.  This study traces the evolution of chick lit not only as a genre of popular fiction, but as a cultural phenomenon. It complicates the genealogy of the texts by situating them firmly in the context of age-old debates about female literary creation, and by highlighting the dynamics of the popular-fiction market. Offering a convincing dissection of the formula which lies at the heart of chick lit, as well as in-depth analyses of a number of chick-lit titles ranging from classic to more recent and edgier texts, this book yields new insights into a relatively young field of academic study. Its close readings provide astute assessments of chick lit's notoriously skewed representational politics, especially with regard to sexuality and ethnicity, which feed into current discussions about postfeminism. Moreover, the study makes a unique contribution to the scholarly debate of chick lit by including an analysis of the (online) fan communities the genre has fostered.  The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit weaves a sound methodological network, drawing on reader-response criticism; feminist, gender, and queer theory; affect studies; and whiteness studies. This book is an accessible and engaging study for anyone interested in postfeminism and popular culture.