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Narcissuses, Medusas, Ophelias… Water Imagery And Femininity In The Texts By Two Decadent Women Writers, Viola Parente-Capkova
Narcissuses, Medusas, Ophelias… Water Imagery And Femininity In The Texts By Two Decadent Women Writers, Viola Parente-Capkova
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
My concern is the way in which women writers whose work can be characterized as Decadent and/or Symbolist used the figures of Narcissus, Medusa and Ophelia, as well as the imagery of femininity and water. When analyzing this aspect of their work, I am looking at the ways in which these writers created and co-created the Decadent imagery, what strategies they adopted in their representations of woman and the construction of female subjectivity.
Symbols Of Water And Woman On Selected Examples Of Modern Bengali Literature In The Context Of Mythological Tradition, Blanka Knotkova-Capkova
Symbols Of Water And Woman On Selected Examples Of Modern Bengali Literature In The Context Of Mythological Tradition, Blanka Knotkova-Capkova
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Woman-water homology appears in modern Bengali literature (namely poetry) in various aspects: as the archetypal symbol of creation and destruction, symbol of the womb as the beginning and end of life and rebirth (connoting both physical womb and eternal womb), and also of the womb as dark mysteriousness; a symbol of the continuation, preservation of life, symbol of transience and elusiveness, traditional male written poetic symbol of charm and beauty. In the demystifying, subversive (not only female) poetic imagination, it may also construct the symbol of eternal unity with the female principle, articulate a specific concept of female identity.
Mining The Meaning Of Collective Memory And Imagination: The Construction Of Identity In The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Courtney Hooper
Mining The Meaning Of Collective Memory And Imagination: The Construction Of Identity In The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Courtney Hooper
Cultural Studies Capstone Papers
This project illuminates the relationship between cultural resistance, cultural production, and cultural identity in the poetry of Puerto Ricans in New York (“Nuyoricans”). Through textual analysis, informal interviews, and participant observation conducted in the South Bronx, this project is interested in how the descriptions of the island as “home” are used to mediate a cultural or ethnic identity, particularly amongst a people who do not live there, or perhaps never have. While the construction of an ethnic identity and a conceptual homeland in a diasporic community has been studied in past research, the intention here is to elaborate upon the …
The Grizzly, April 6, 2006, Ali Wagner, Bart Brooks, Dan Lamson, Allison Emery, Alexis Witt, Johanna Engel, Cecily Macconchie, Lane Taylor, Katie Perkins, Cori Turkowski, Ashley Higgins, Sonia N. Gonzalez, Jay Repko, Michael Graham
The Grizzly, April 6, 2006, Ali Wagner, Bart Brooks, Dan Lamson, Allison Emery, Alexis Witt, Johanna Engel, Cecily Macconchie, Lane Taylor, Katie Perkins, Cori Turkowski, Ashley Higgins, Sonia N. Gonzalez, Jay Repko, Michael Graham
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
Gerlach and Murphy Embroiled in Plagiarism Controversy • Edible Book Festival 2006 • Poem-palooza: From Slammers to Dead Poets • Tradition Brings Old and New Friends Together • Competing for a Good Cause • A Taste of Tantric • Once Upon a Time in France • Opinions: Standardized Testing for Colleges?; Drawing the Line: Moral Predicament of Abortion • Playoff Bound in 2006? • Noah Builds Ark Around Baby Gators
Danish Poets Today
The Bridge
The Danish poet, playwright and novelist Pia Tafdrup read from her work Queen's Gate and presented some of her other poems at the session Danish Poets Today With the author's permission we are able to present one of the poems from Queen's Gate.
The Initial Formation Of Independent Cultural Consciousness In British Colonials In The Caribbean During The Eighteenth Century Through Poetry Written By Colonials In The Caribbean, Adam Stilgoe
Undergraduate Review
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