Untamed and Unabashed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Untamed and Unabashed write by Regina Barreca. This book was released on 1994. Untamed and Unabashed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Untamed and Unabashed, Regina Barreca, noted authority on women and humor, examines the use of humor in the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. She analyzes the ways that each writer uses comedic devices, especially those involving language itself, and discusses the gendered basis of their humor, providing a provocative feminist perspective on gender and comedy. Each of the essays argues that conservative critics have misread and misunderstood the importance of humor in the works of these women authors, and that women's humor serves to explode conventions oppressive to women and to offer women readers a critique of, and an alternative perspective on, the dominant cultural ideologies that contain and oppress them. The book concludes that these authors strategically deployed humor, coded in forms that women readers-but not men readers-would recognize and understand, as a means of educating and empowering those women readers. Barreca asserts that much of women's comic play has to do with power and its systematic misappropriation, allowing women to gain perspective by ridiculing the implicit insanities of a patriarchal culture. Using detailed persuasive new readings of various works of each of her chosen authors, she shows how the straightjacket of conventional femininity is challenged, confronted, and finally, thrown off. This volume demonstrates that comedy can effectively channel anger and rebellion by first making them appear to be acceptable and temporary phenomena, and then by harnessing the released energies, rather than dispersing them. This kind of comedy, which is at the heart of Untamed and Unabashed, terrifies those who hold order dear. It should.
So Odd a Mixture
So Odd a Mixture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook So Odd a Mixture write by Phyllis Ferguson-Bottomer. This book was released on 2007-05-15. So Odd a Mixture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death. However there were certainly people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer proposes that Austen wrote about them, without knowing what it was that she was describing. So Odd a Mixture looks at eight seemingly diverse characters in Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, who display autistic traits. These characters - five in the Bennet family and three in the extended family of the Fitzwilliams - have fundamental difficulties with communication, empathy and theory of mind. Perhaps it is high-functioning autism or Asperger's Syndrome that provides an explanation for some characters' awkward behaviour at crowded balls, their frequent silences or their tendency to lapse into monologues rather than truly converse with others. This fascinating book will provide food for thought for students and fans of Austen's classic novel, and for anyone interested in autism spectrum disorders.
Untamed
Untamed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Untamed write by Xan Hood. This book was released on 2006. Untamed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book written for young men explores various aspects of the character and mandate of biblical masculinity: service to our King, need for brotherhood, desire for adventure, and relationships with women.
The Erotics of Instruction
The Erotics of Instruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Erotics of Instruction write by Regina Barreca. This book was released on 1997. The Erotics of Instruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lively exploration of the manifestations of passion & desire in the teacher-student relationship
An Untamed State
An Untamed State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Untamed State write by Roxane Gay. This book was released on 2014-05-06. An Untamed State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Haitian American woman survives a brutal kidnapping in this “commanding debut novel” from the New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist (The New Yorker). Author and essayist Roxane Gay is celebrated for her incisive commentary on identity and culture, as well as for her bestselling nonfiction and short story collections. Now, with An Untamed State, she delivers a “breathtaking debut novel” (The Guardian, UK) of wealth in the face of crushing poverty, and the lawless anger produced by corrupt governments. Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she lives in the United States with her adoring husband and infant son, returning every summer to stay on her father’s Port-au-Prince estate. But the fairy tale ends when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, just outside the estate walls. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom. As her father’s standoff with the kidnappers stretches out into days, Mireille must endure the torments of a man who despises everything she represents. An Untamed State is a “breathless, artful, disturbing and original” story of a willful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings).
