LEADER 05002nam 2200721 450 001 9910467042203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-5755-3 010 $a1-4426-5559-3 010 $a0-8020-4428-X 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442657557 035 $a(CKB)3830000000055244 035 $a(CEL)449224 035 $a(OCoLC)903441020 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00916091 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3296703 035 $a(DE-B1597)465629 035 $a(OCoLC)944178460 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442657557 035 $a(PPN)192609955 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669975 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669975 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256489 035 $a(OCoLC)906190097 035 $a(EXLCZ)993830000000055244 100 $a20160920h19991999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWomen's lives $ethe view from the threshold /$fCarolyn G. Heilbrun 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1999. 210 4$dİ1999 215 $a1 online resource (120 pages) 225 1 $aAlexander Lectures 311 $a0-8020-8228-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$t1. Deliriously Hideous, A Powerful Beauty --$t2. The Evolution of the Female Memoir --$t3. Embracing the Paradox --$t4. The Rewards of Liminality 330 $aEve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state of transition, women have always had a particularly close relationship to changeable terrain. In their quest for self knowledge, boundaries, and names, women have found themselves between varying cultural demands. In one view, perhaps the dominant one, the only way to gain positive status is to fit appropriately into approved categories: appropriately beautiful, appropriately young, appropriately thin, appropriately successful. In another view, the view compellingly expressed by Carolyn Heilbrun, women must abandon the appropriate and seek out the liminel. The word limen means threshold. To be in a state of liminality is to be poised upon uncertain ground, on the brink of leaving one condition or country or self to enter upon another. When recognized, liminality offers women freedom to be or become themselves.In Women's Lives: The View from the Threshold Carolyn Heilbrun looks at the biographies and memoirs of women who have wrestled with their own betwixt and betweenness (in the process altering the face of literature, and the world): George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Gloria Steinem. She reveals the ways in which feminism has changed our perceptions of these lives. Surprising explorations of the positions which launch women into uncertain ground extend these lectures outside the academic purview.Each year the Alexander lectureship invites a distinguished scholar to the University of Toronto to give a course of public lectures on the subject of English Literature. These four lectures from the 1997 series put Carolyn Heilbrun in a line of distinguished scholarly work with such previous lecturers as Walter Ong, Robertson Davies, and Northrop Frye. But Heilbrun, within this distinguished genealogy, reworks the very notion of the line, creating a new pattern of writing and approaching literary culture, just as the women whose lives she examines have done. The reader will come out of this experience moved, refreshed, and inspired to create rather than take a position. Disclaimer: Excerpt from the poem "Where Did I Leave Off" by Virginia Hamilton Adair on pages 65-66 removed at the request of the rights holder 410 0$aAlexander lectures. 606 $aWomen authors, English$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen authors, American$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFeminist literary criticism$zEnglish-speaking countries 606 $aFeminism and literature$zEnglish-speaking countries 606 $aWomen and literature$zEnglish-speaking countries 606 $aAutobiography$xWomen authors 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen authors, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen authors, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFeminist literary criticism 615 0$aFeminism and literature 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aAutobiography$xWomen authors. 676 $a823.0099287 700 $aHeilbrun$b Carolyn G.$f1926-2003,$0169016 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467042203321 996 $aWomen's lives$91989246 997 $aUNINA