The Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship, 1974-1989
Since 1974, the Florence Howe Award has honored distinguished feminist literary criticism written by scholars in the fields of language and literature study. Seventeen winning essays-many never before published-are collected in one volume, Courage and Tools. Written by leading scholars and theorists, these groundbreaking essays discuss topics such ......
Theoretical Approaches and Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage
This book explores biased usage in depth-its origins, its effect, the related controversies-and provides sensible and sensitive guidelines for nondiscriminatory speech and writing.
Growing out of a conference of representatives of programs that grant the doctorate in English, this volume examines the profession and the ways that graduate students are socialized into it. The essays sketch the profession's current views of the relation between reading and writing, addressing, in the words of the preface, "what it is that can ......
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and ......
Dom Combe presents the reader a sharply focused profile of a dedicated and extraordinary woman of the 20th century, Henry James'sister-in-law, independent in spirit and passionately devoted for more than 60 years to the cause of Gregorian Chant and its liturgical implementation. Drawing on her voluminous correspondence, he traces the main events ......
Homer's epics usually appear first in anthologies used for the general literature courses required of most college and high school students throughout the country. His influence extends beyond the confines of English and classics departments into seminars offered in comparative literature, history, philosophy, and the social sciences. This volume ......
Theory meets practice as twenty-four distinguished scholars apply a variety of methodologies to many different literatures, including American, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American, and Spanish. The texts range from Petrarch's Song 126 and Cervantes's La gitanilla to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God ......
Using autobiographical sources such as letters, diaries, and oral testimonies, the contributors to this volume suggest possibilities for approaching these materials as literature and introducing them into the classroom. The appendixes include two previously unpublished narratives: the diary of Amelia Buss and the letters of Delina Hopper.
