Writing the Woman Artist : Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture / Suzanne W. Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Suzanne W., Editor.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and literature.

Feminist literary criticism.

Women artists in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (458 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Writing the Woman Artist is a collection of essays that explore the ways women writers portray women painters, sculptors, writers, and performers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: H.D.'s Rescriptions of Joyce, Lawrence, and Pound

2. Power and Poetic Vocation in Adrienne Rich's The Dream of a Common Language

3. Lyric Voice and Sexual Difference in Elizabeth Bishop

4. The Pattern of Birds and Beasts: Willa Cather and Women's Art

5. Anita Brookner: Woman Writer as Reluctant Feminist

6. Incomplete Stories: Womanhood and Artistic Ambition in Daniel Deronda and Between the Acts

7. When Privilege Is No Protection: The Woman Artist in Quicksand and The House of Mirth

8. The Artist Manque in the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis

9. From Shadow to Substance: The Empowerment of the Artist Figure in Lee Smith's Fiction

10. Through the Flower: Judy Chicago's Conflict Between a Woman-Centered Vision and the Male Artist Hero

11. The Alberta Trilogy: Cora Sandel's Norwegian Künstlerroman and American Feminist Literary Discourse

12. The Hysteric and the Mimic: Reading Christa Wolf's The Quest for Christa Τ.

13. "Sisters in Arms": The Warrior Construct in Writings by Contemporary U.S. Women of Color

14. The Politics of the Woman Artist in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits

15. Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall·. New System, New Morality

16. "Retreat with Honour": Mary Cholmondeley's Presentation of the New Woman Artist in Red Pottage

17. Aurora Leigh: An Epical Ars Poetica

18. “I must not settle into a figure”: The Woman Artist in Virginia Woolf's Writings

19. Re-visioning Creativity: Audre Lorde's Refiguration of Eros as the Black Mother Within

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781512809596

1512809594

OCLC:

979970716