Deviant Women (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Narratives of Femininity
Redaktion: Tiina Mantymaki, Mantymaki

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the representation of female deviance from literary, sociolinguistic and historical-cultural perspectives in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. In this way, it elucidates a contemporary cultural concern about narratives of femininity as well as diverse sites of negotiations of female resistance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783653995923
• Artikelnr.: 52928459

Autorenporträt

Tiina Mäntymäki holds a PhD in Language and Culture from the University of Linköping (Sweden). Marinella Rodi-Risberg holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (English) from the University of Vaasa (Finland). Anna Foka holds a PhD in Classical Studies and Ancient History from the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Anna Foka: Beyond Deviant: Theodora as the Other in Byzantine Imperial Historiography - Wang Lei: Ghosts and Spirits as the objet a in Pu Songling's Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio - Sanna Karkulehto/Ilmari Leppihalme: Deviant Will to Knowledge: The Pandora Myth and Its Feminist Revisions - Tiina Mäntymäki: Carnivalesque Masquerade. Lisbeth Salander and Her Trickster Agency - Marinella Rodi-Risberg: Trauma and Contextual Factors in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees: Incest, Race and Gendered Subjectivities - Caroline Enberg: «Baby Killer!» - Media Constructions of a Culturally Congruent Identity for Casey Anthony as Mother and Female Offender - Maj-Britt Höglund: The Absent Female Rotarian in Finland: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rotary Norden - Anka Ryall: A Deviant in the Arctic - Gerald Porter: «Foremost in Violence and Ferocity»: Women Singing at Work in Britain - Róisín Ní Ghallóglaigh/Sandra Joyce: «Threshing in the Haggard to her Heart's Delight»: Women and Erotic Expression in Irish Traditional Song.