| Loving Against the Odds: Women's Writing in English in a European Context Contributor(s): Collier, Peter (Editor), Russell, Elizabeth (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3039107321 ISBN-13: 9783039107322 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $83.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 820.992 |
| LCCN: 2007295810 |
| Series: European Connections |
| Physical Information: 221 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays collected in this volume include a selection of those presented at a conference in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, in 2002. They highlight the existence of a European network of women's writing which became a valuable source of consciousness-raising, not only for European women writers, but also for their readers. The main theme running through the essays is love: women loving against the odds and transcending all kinds of obstacles. Does love speak a common language or is it inevitably linked to social mores and individual experience? Does desire work in the same way? Do love and desire have the power to subvert dichotomous thinking and motivate real change? The texts studied in this volume are both fictional and factual, from plays and novels to diaries, letters and drama performances. The countries the essays travel through, and the languages they encounter, all contribute to forming a magic web of connections, solidarities and ideas that truly cross boundaries. |