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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale [[electronic resource]] : A readers guide
| Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale [[electronic resource]] : A readers guide |
| Autore | Wisker Gina |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (152 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813.54 |
| Collana | Reader's Guides |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-87091-2
9786612870910 1-4411-0352-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgements; Quotations and Abbreviations; 1. Context; 2. Overview of Themes; 3. Reading The Handmaid's Tale; 4. Reception and Influence; 5. Guide to Further Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458797403321 |
Wisker Gina
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| London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2010 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale [[electronic resource]] : A readers guide
| Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale [[electronic resource]] : A readers guide |
| Autore | Wisker Gina |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (152 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813.54 |
| Collana | Reader's Guides |
| Soggetto topico | Tales |
| ISBN |
1-282-87091-2
9786612870910 1-4411-0352-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgements; Quotations and Abbreviations; 1. Context; 2. Overview of Themes; 3. Reading The Handmaid's Tale; 4. Reception and Influence; 5. Guide to Further Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785203203321 |
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Wisker Gina
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| London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale [[electronic resource]] : A readers guide
| Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale [[electronic resource]] : A readers guide |
| Autore | Wisker Gina |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (152 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813.54 |
| Collana | Reader's Guides |
| Soggetto topico | Tales |
| ISBN |
1-282-87091-2
9786612870910 1-4411-0352-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgements; Quotations and Abbreviations; 1. Context; 2. Overview of Themes; 3. Reading The Handmaid's Tale; 4. Reception and Influence; 5. Guide to Further Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821157703321 |
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Wisker Gina
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| London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Contemporary Women's Ghost Stories : Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns
| Contemporary Women's Ghost Stories : Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns |
| Autore | Wisker Gina |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.39375 |
| Collana | Palgrave Gothic |
| Soggetto non controllato | Literature |
| ISBN | 3-030-89054-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Contemporary Women's Ghost Stories -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Lifting the Veil on Women's Ghost Stories -- Undead: Critical Background -- Ghosts at the Turn of the Century and Women's Modernist Writing -- Structure -- Conclusion -- References -- Filmography -- Part I: Haunted Texts, Haunted Houses, Haunted Lives -- Chapter 2: Haunted Romance and Haunted Houses: Rebecca (du Maurier, 1938), The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson, 1959) -- Rebecca -- The Haunted House, the Haunting Mother: Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House -- The Haunting of Hill House -- References -- Filmography -- Theatre -- TV -- Chapter 3: Revengeful Ghosts: The Woman in Black (Hill, 1983), Beloved (Morrison, 1987) -- The Woman in Black (1983) -- Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) -- References -- Filmography -- Part II: Possession -- Chapter 4: True Love as Possession: Ashputtle (Carter, 1987), Lady Oracle (Atwood, 1976), The Greatcoat (Dunmore, 2012), The Glass Bottle Trick (Hopkinson, 2000) -- 'Ashputtle', Angela Carter (1987) -- Lady Oracle (1976), Margaret Atwood -- The Greatcoat, Helen Dunmore (2012) -- Duppies and 'The Glass Bottle Trick', Nalo Hopkinson (2000) -- Conclusion -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 5: The Spectral Voice: In the Red Kitchen (Roberts, 1990), Affinity (Waters, 1999), Beyond Black (Mantel, 2005) -- Popular Ghosts and Real Ghost Hunting -- Spiritualism -- Spirit Contact -- In the Red Kitchen (1990), Michèle Roberts -- Beyond Black (2005), Hilary Mantel -- Affinity (1999), Sarah Waters -- References -- Filmography -- Theatre -- TV -- Chapter 6: Domestic Hauntings: The Little Stranger (Waters, 2009), Birdcage Walk (Dunmore, 2017), The Stopped Heart (Myerson, 2016) -- Haunted Houses and Change -- The Little Stranger (2009): Sarah Waters.
Silenced Women: Oppressive, Domestic Spaces, Murders Birdcage Walk (Helen Dunmore, 2017) -- Julie Myerson's The Stopped Heart (2016) -- References -- Filmography -- Music -- TV -- Part III: Traumas of Place: Postcolonial Hauntings -- Chapter 7: Postcolonial Hauntings and Urban Gothic in Singapore and Malaysia: The Serpent's Tooth (Lim, 1982), The Bondmaid (Lim, 1992), Haunting (Lim, 1981), The Black Isle (Tan, 2012), Ponti (Teo, 2018), House of Aunts (Cho, 2014), The Croc -- Artifice, Bondmaids and Family Ghosts-Catherine Lim -- The Bondmaid (1997) -- The Serpent's Tooth (1982) -- Domestic Ghosts: Shirley Lim, 'Haunting' (1981) -- Sandi Tan's The Black Isle (2012) -- Singapore: Cities, Space, Place and Ghosts -- Pontianaks at Home, Ponti (Sharlene Teo, 2018), 'The House of Aunts' (Spirits Abroad, 2014), Zen Cho -- Conclusion -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 8: Traumas of Place, Travel, Hauntology: Novel without a Name (Duong, 1995), Daughters of the House (Roberts, 1992), The Winter Ghosts (Mosse, 2010) -- Trauma: A Particular Form of Haunting -- Duong Thu Huong: Novel Without a Name (1995) -- Kate Mosse: The Winter Ghosts (2010) -- Michèle Roberts: Daughters of the House (1992) -- Conclusion -- References -- TV -- Chapter 9: Visits and Visitations: A Visit (Jackson, 1950), Ghost Summer (Due, 2015), Her Fearful Symmetry (Niffenegger, 2009), Hotel World (Smith, 2001) -- 'A Visit, or The Lovely House', Shirley Jackson (1950) -- Hotel World, Ali Smith (2001) -- Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger (2009) -- Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching (2009) -- Past Guilt and Ghostly Returns-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer (2015) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Breaking Boundaries, Leaking Truths, Pressing Issues: Ghost Wall (Moss, 2018) -- Breaking Boundaries, Leaking Truths: Ghost Wall (Sarah Moss, 2018). Moving Forward by Learning from the Haunted Past -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910574087203321 |
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Wisker Gina
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2022 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women's Writing
| Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women's Writing |
| Autore | Wisker Gina |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.89287 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BibbyLeanne
YeandleHeidi |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing Series |
| ISBN | 3-031-28093-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Writing Back and Looking Forward -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Haunting Relationships, Dark Visions, Personal Dangers and Encounters with Strangers in Gothic Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield (1920), Shirley Jackson (1946), Daphne du Maurier (1952), and Alice Munro (2012) -- Women's Gothic -- Freud, Existentialism and Phenomenology -- Katherine Mansfield (1921) -- Mansfield, Women's Gothic and Gothic Horror -- Influences-Mansfield and du Maurier -- Daphne du Maurier and Shirley Jackson, Gothic Horror -- Shirley Jackson -- Alice Munro -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Websites -- Chapter 3: (Dis)continuing the Mother-daughter Dyad in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother? Working Back Through Our Mothers -- Introduction -- Are You My (Biological) Mother? -- Are You My (Literary) Mother? -- Are You My (Therapeutic) Mother? -- Transitional Objects and the Use of the Past -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: 'You'll be told lies about me, or perhaps even nothing at all.' Facts, Fictions, and Anachronism and Realism in Contemporary Women's Historical Novels -- Facts, Fictions, and the 'practical past' -- Deryn Lake, Suzannah Dunn, and the Historical Event -- Events, Anachronisms, and Back Again: Suzannah Dunn's Tudor Queens -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: A Feminist Genealogy: L'Écriture Féminine, The Youngest Doll, and Contemporary Puerto Rican Women Writers -- L'écriture Féminine -- When Women Love Men -- The Poisoned Story -- "At the Beginning of a New History": Zoé Jiménez Corretjer and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: The Smallest Room of One's Own: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson in Close Quarters -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: "They are not only one.
they're two, and three, and four": Building a Trauma Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: 'Ageing and Care in Contemporary Women's Writing: Doris Lessing's The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Drabble's The Pure Gold Baby' -- Ageing, Care and Time -- The Diary of a Good Neighbour -- Margaret Drabble's The Pure Gold Baby -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: (Re)Writing the Future/Disavowing the Past: Reading Feminism(s) in The Power and The Handmaid's Tale -- Generational Divides? -- Paradoxical Positioning -- Narrative (Re)Framing -- Materiality, the Body, the Gaze -- The Power of the Gaze -- (In)Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910734855303321 |
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Wisker Gina
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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