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Hispanic Research Journal, 2022 The early twentieth century saw the emergence of an avant-garde culture, which marked a turning point in the literary history of Spain. Until recently, the dominant approach to Spanish avant-garde poetry has been a generational one.
Christina Bezari
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Commemorating the Nameless Wives of the Bible: Midrashic Poems by Contemporary American-Jewish Women
Religions, 2020 A proper name individualizes a person, the lack of it making him or her less noticeable. This insight is apt in regard to the nameless women in the Hebrew Bible, a resolutely androcentric work.
Anat Koplowitz-Breier
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Modernist Women Writers and Whimsy: Marianne Moore and Dorothy Parker
Humanities, 2020 This article assesses the work of Dorothy Parker (1893−1967) and Marianne Moore (1887−1972) in relation to the aesthetic category of whimsy. It considers how whimsy has been used as a term of dismissal for American women poets, outlines ways ...
Will May
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DR. Elizabeth Garside Senter (1841-1885): California medical pioneer and literary muse
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022 Elizabeth Garside Senter (1841–1885) is a unique figure in the history of women in the American West. An early pioneer in the fight for women’s acceptance in the field of medicine, her California practice as a physician and surgeon was informed by a ...
Susan E. James
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Coping With Canon/Canons: Women Poets and the Literary Context
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2015 The aim of this paper is to revisit literary canon, focusing on some of the most relevant texts and books that have been published within the corpus of Anglo-American studies. Then our attention is shifted to the works of American women authors and their
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Humanities, 2021 Between 1845–1849, twelve enslaved women in Montgomery, Alabama lived through prolonged, gynecologic experimentation at the hands of Dr. James Marion Sims.
Rachel Dudley
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Latin American Literary Review, 2021 Krisma Mancía (1980, El Salvador) is one of the most promising members of the postwar generation of young Salvadoran poets. Like Jacinta Escudos, Claudia Hernández and Vanessa Núñez Handal in prose, Krisma Mancía breaks free of the taboos still found ...
Raquel Patricia Chiquillo
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“Priestess or sacrifice?” Domestic Tasks and Poetic Craft in Eavan Boland’s poetry
ABEI Journal, 2022 This article looks at the relationship between housework and poetry in Eavan Boland’s poetry. Like many other women poets of her generation, Boland had an ambivalent relationship to the domestic, as she was well aware of the dangerous tendency to confine
Virginie Trachsler
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Déjà Vu: Shirley Kaufman’s Poetry on Biblical Women
Religions, 2019 This article explores Shirley Kaufman’s reading of the Bible as an elaboration on/of its feminine characters via three devices: (a) Dramatic monologues, in which the woman speaks for herself (“Rebecca” and “Leah”); (b ...
Anat Koplowitz-Breier
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Personal Geographies: Poetic Lineage of American Poets Elizabeth Coatsworth and Kate Barnes
ELOPE, 2016 This paper examines the relationship between two 20th-century American poets, Elizabeth Coatsworth and her daughter, Kate Barnes. Both women mined their physical and personal geographies to create their work; both labored in the shadows of domineering ...
Ellen Maureen Taylor
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