ISBN: 9780415938730

This is a book about women as critics, by brilliant and much admired literary critic, Terry Castle. She writes with an intelligence and style that brings her subject to light and to task… Mehr…

This is a book about women as critics, by brilliant and much admired literary critic, Terry Castle. She writes with an intelligence and style that brings her subject to light and to task. Her focus is almost always on strong women writers and personalities-Jane Austen, Collette, Casanova, Willa Cather-and often turns a probing analysis of these figures and their work into a new perspective on their lives and life in general. This volume is a collection of previously published essays, many of which have appeared in the London Review of Books, to which Castle is a regular contributor. Each work is suffused in her voice and rife with her precinct and often funny insights that humanize her subjects even as it deepens our understanding and appreciation. Books Books ~~ Literary Collections~~ American ~~ General Boss-Ladies-Watch-out~~Terry-Castle Taylor & Francis "Boss Ladies Watch Out! brings together in a convenient format Terry Castle's most scintillating recent essays on literary criticism, women's writing and sexuality. Readers of Castle's many books and reviews already know her as one of the most incisive and witty critics writing today. The articles collected in "Boss Ladies constitute an extended meditation-both learned and personal-on just what it means to be a Female Critic. In the book's opening essays Castle examines how women became critics in the first place-scandalously at times--in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. She explores in particular Jane Austen's "talismanic" role in the establishment of a female critical tradition. In the second part of the book, Castle embraces, with gusto, the role of Female Critic herself. In lively reconsiderations of Sappho, Bronte, Cather, Colette, Gertrude Stein, and many other great women writers--"Boss Ladies" all--Castle pays a moving and civilized tribute to female genius and intellectual daring.<

ISBN: 0415938732

Boss Ladies Watch Out! brings together in a convenient format Terry Castle's most scintillating recent essays on literary criticism, women's writing and sexuality. Readers of Castle's man… Mehr…

Boss Ladies Watch Out! brings together in a convenient format Terry Castle's most scintillating recent essays on literary criticism, women's writing and sexuality. Readers of Castle's many books and reviews already know her as one of the most incisive and witty critics writing today. The articles collected in ""Boss Ladies constitute an extended meditation-both learned and personal-on just what it means to be a Female Critic. In the book's opening essays Castle examines how women became critics in the first place-scandalously at times--in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. She explores in particular Jane Austen's ""talismanic"" role in the establishment of a female critical tradition. In the second part of the book, Castle embraces, with gusto, the role of Female Critic herself. In lively reconsiderations of Sappho, Bronte, Cather, Colette, Gertrude Stein, and many other great women writers--""Boss Ladies"" all--Castle pays a moving and civilized tribute to female genius and intellectual daring. Livre - Livre, [PU: Routledge]<

2002, ISBN: 9780415938730

Essays on Women, Sex and Writing, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Routledge]

2002, ISBN: 9780415938730

Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Routledge]