1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910161359403321

Titolo

Popular culture review

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Las Vegas, Nev. : , : University of Nevada, , 1989-

Washington, DC : , : Westphalia Press, an imprint of the Policy Studies Organizaion

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Popular culture

Culture populaire

Periodicals.

West (U.S.) Popular culture Periodicals

West United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Journal of the Far West Popular Culture Association and the Far West American Culture Association.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965071703321

Autore

Nichols James R. <1938->

Titolo

Stronger sex : the fictional women of Lawrence Durrell / / James R. Nichols

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Plymouth, England, : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011

ISBN

1-68393-945-X

1-61147-067-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Disciplina

828/.91209

Soggetti

Women in literature

Characters and characteristics in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE STRONGER SEX; Contents; 1. Introduction: Biography and Fiction; 2. Classicism and Durrell's Vision: Durrell's Free Women; 3. Dorothy Lamour on the Road: Paganism and the Female Body; 4. The Loneliness of Love: Melissa and the Sacrificial Woman; 5. Durrell's Failed Women: Justine and Livia; 6. My Lady, My Guenevere: Benedicta and the Revolt of Aphrodite; 7. Risen Angels in Durrell's Free/Fallen Women: Clea, Constance, and the Fortunate Fall; 8. Jocasta, How Youve Changed: Lawrence Durrell and the Earth Mother; 9. Narcissism and the Female Body: Cunegonde in Caesar's Vast Ghost

10. Postscript: Civilization as a Female ConstructWorks Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Stronger Sex studies the fictional women of Lawrence Durrell. Durrell envisioned a new woman, self-confident, free of male domination, and able to serve, direct, and protect her dependent male counterpart. Durrell's modern woman is the center of the new post-modern 'couple'- man dependent upon the centrality of woman for the essential wisdom and direction in his life. Far from being a follower of D. H. Lawrence, as so many have claimed, Durrell insists that the male must first cede to woman the personal, social, and political power and freedom which he has historically denied her.