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Gender And Space In British Literature, 1660-1820, Karen Gevirtz
Gender And Space In British Literature, 1660-1820, Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, Pamela Benson
Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, Pamela Benson
Pamela J Benson
Cavallo's provocative title suggests the essence of her argument: the Orlando Innamoratois a didactic poem in which the poet "presents a coherent moral vision of love as well as a program for a humanist use of literature" (10).
The Tripled Plot And Center Of Sula, Maureen Reddy
The Tripled Plot And Center Of Sula, Maureen Reddy
Maureen T. Reddy
Critics of Sula frequently comment on the pervasive presence of death, the uses of a particular cultural and historical background, the split or doubled protagonist (Sula/Nel), and the attention to chronology in the novel. However, as far as I am aware, no one has presented a reading of Sula that explores the interrelatedness of these elements; yet it is the connections among them that most usefully reveal the novel's overall thematic patterns. Sula can be, and has been, read as, among other things, a fable, a lesbian novel, a black female bildungsroman, a novel of heroic questing, and an historical …
Melba Boyd, Karen Gevirtz
Melba Boyd, Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
This article has been reprinted in a revised edition of the Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford University Press, 1997). It describes the life and career of Melba Boyd.