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PS374.W6 W74 2006
PS374
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W6
W74
2006
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
0877459940
9780877459941
b721864
Plain and ugly Janes :
[Book]
the rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction /
Charlotte M. Wright.
Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2006.
0612
xiii, 136 pages ;
22 cm
Originally published: New York : Garland Pub., 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (125-130) and index.
The nature of ugliness. Nineteenth-century precedents: old maids in the works of Louisa May Alcott, Rose Terry Cooke, Rebecca Harding Davis -- Descriptions of ugliness: twentieth-century examples -- The consequences of ugliness. The effect of ugliness on the self -- The effect of ugliness on relations with others -- The ugly woman in contemporary American fiction. Adjusting the stereotype: Flannery O' Connor, Deborah Eisenberg, Alison Lurie, Ann Tyler, Leon Rooke, Doris Betts, Anne Beattie, Tess Gallagher, Russell Banks, Barry Hannah -- Anger, sex and fate: Katharine Anne Porter, Lorrie Moore, Alice Walker, Sarah Bird -- The rise of the ugly woman: Barbara Rex, Louise Erdrich, Peter S. Beagle, Alice Walker, Katherine Dunn, Rebecca Goldstein.
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Defines and explores the ramifications of a character type in twentieth-century American literature - the ugly woman - whose roots can be traced to the old maid/spinster figure of the nineteenth century. This book concludes that the ugly woman character enables authors to explore the ironies and inequalities inherent in the beauty system and to create more powerful and heroic females.
American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Body image in literature.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature.
Ugliness in literature.
Women in literature.
American fiction.
Body image in literature.
Das Haýÿssliche
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature.
Frau
Kurzgeschichte
Roman
Ugliness in literature.
Women in literature.
USA
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PS374
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W6
W74
2006
Wright, Charlotte M.
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مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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