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UNINA9910458233703321 |
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Gilbert & Gubar's The madwoman in the attic after thirty years [[electronic resource] /] / edited with an introduction by Annette R. Federico ; foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert |
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Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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English literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Bursting all the doors": The madwoman in the attic after thirty years / Annette R. Federico -- After Gilbert and Gubar: madwomen inspired by Madwoman / Susan Fraiman -- Modeling the madwoman: feminist movements and the academy / Marlene Tromp -- Gilbert and Gubar's daughters: The madwoman in the attic's spectre in Milton studies / Carol Blessing -- Feminism to ecofeminism: the legacy of Gilbert and Gubar's readings of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The last man / Katey Castellano -- Enclosing fantasies: Jane Eyre / Madeleine Wood -- Jane Eyre's doubles? Colonial progress and the tradition of new woman writing in India / Narin Hassan -- Revisiting the attic: recognizing the shared spaces of Jane Eyre and Beloved / Danielle Russell -- The legacy of hell: Wuthering heights on film and Gilbert and Gubar's feminist poetics / Hila Shachar -- The veiled, the masked, and the civil war woman: Louisa May Alcott and the madwoman allegory / Keren Fite -- Sensationalizing women's writing: madwomen in attics, the sensational canon, and generic confinement / Tamara Silvia Wagner -- Ghosts in the attic: Gilbert and Gubar's The madwoman in the attic and the female gothic / Carol Margaret Davison -- Elizabeth Gaskell: a well-tempered madness / Thomas P. Fair -- Mimesis and poiesis: reflections on Gilbert and Gubar's reading of Emily Dickinson / Lucia Aiello. |
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UNINA9910454304003321 |
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Autore |
Elgamri Elzain |
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Islam in the British broadsheets [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of orientalism on representations of Islam in the British press / / Elzain Elgamri |
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Reading, UK, : Ithaca Press, 2008 |
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0-86372-530-9 |
1-281-98852-9 |
9786611988524 |
1-4416-0025-6 |
0-86372-360-8 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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British newspapers - Religious aspects |
Islam in mass media |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Mass media and the war |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; Background; Part One; 1 Islam and the Christian West: historical background; 2 Islam and Islamic fundamentalism in Western discourses; Part Two; 3 Analysing discourse: theoretical and methodological issues; 4 The Rushdie affair; 5 The rise of the Taliban movement to power; 6 The Luxor massacre of foreign tourists; 7 The September 11th attacks; Part Three; 8 Findings and conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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From the late Ayatollah Khomeini''s fatwa against Salman Rushdie, to the extremism of the Taliban and the mass murder of the September 11th attacks, the image of Islam as a violent and anti-Western faith has featured dominantly in the global mass media. In this book, Elzain Elgamri sets out to refute such generalisations. Taking into account the historically conditioned Orientalist discourses, in light of the polarized |
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relationship between Islam and the West, and deconstructing what has actually been reported in the British quality press, he argues that what has actually been journalistically |
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