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Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism

Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism

Marianne DeKoven

Organized around pairs and groups of female-and male-signed texts, the book reveals the gender-inflected ambivalence of modernist writers.
Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern

Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern

Marianne DeKoven

Utopia Limited is an original, engaging account of how postmodernism emerged from the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s.
Modernist Sexualities

Modernist Sexualities

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... domesticity: a liberated space of freedom from its constraints; a space of valorised femininity redeemed from its denigration of women.8 But it is also a space that, in refusing Woolf, Stein and the drama of public woman Marianne DeKoven.
Geography and Plays

Geography and Plays

Gertrude Stein

Harry Phelan Gibb [191 2: see note 3] 201 transitional to non-repetitive, alogical style Portrait of Constance Fletcher [ 1 9 1 1 ] 157 Note: My assignment of texts to each category, though not identical with Marianne DeKoven's in A Different ...
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism

The Cambridge Companion to Modernism

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9. Marianne DeKoven. Modernism. and. gender. Shifts in gender relations at the turn of the century were a key factor in the emergence of Modernism. The period from 1880 to 1920, within which Modernism emerged and rose to pre-eminence ...
The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers

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10. See Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Writing beyond the Ending: Strategies of Twentieth Century Women Writers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985). Marianne DeKoven, “Gertrude Stein,” in The Gender of Modernism, ed. Scott, p. 485.
Utopia limited: the sixties and the emergence of the postmodern

Utopia limited: the sixties and the emergence of the postmodern

Marianne DeKoven

""Utopia Limited "will set in place a new way of understanding the interface between social, cultural, and political impulses in the sixties.
Vous avez dit Marianne ?

Vous avez dit Marianne ?

Marianne Dubois

Malaise de la République, crise de l'école, déclin de l'industrie, urgence de la défense, défi des moeurs : rien ne prédestinait Marianne Dubois à s'emparer de ces sujets brulants à l'Assemblée nationale.
Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice

Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice

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Global and Local, Theory and Practice Marianne DeKoven. WOMEN'S STUDIES "Feminist Locations comes at a new watershed for feminist studies and has important things to say about identity politics, the spaces within feminism, and global ...
Marianne Hainisch, Die Mutter: versehen mit einem kritischen ...

Marianne Hainisch, Die Mutter: versehen mit einem kritischen ...

Marianne Hainisch

Der annotierte, farbige Bildteil enthält Dokumente, die einen Überblick über Marianne Hainischs Schaffen im Spiegel ihrer Zeit vermitteln
Baby Bod: Turn Flab to Fab in 12 Weeks Flat!

Baby Bod: Turn Flab to Fab in 12 Weeks Flat!

Marianne Ryan

Written by leading Women's Heath Physical Therapist, Marianne Ryan, PT, OCS, who has over 30 years experience. As a mother of two, Marianne is passionate about helping women prepare for childbirth and reclaim their bodies afterwards.
RSPB Spotlight: Robins

RSPB Spotlight: Robins

Marianne Taylor

... Ed Drewitt; 45 Marianne Taylor; 46 SS;47 SS; 48 SS; 49 Roger Wilmshurst/FL; 50 Ray Kennedy/RS; 51 Ray Kennedy/RS; 52 Marianne Taylor; 53 SS; 54t Jack Perks/RS, b Roger Wilmshurst/FL; 55 Marianne Taylor; 56 t SS, b Ray ...
Marianne North: A Very Intrepid Painter

Marianne North: A Very Intrepid Painter

Michelle Payne

The guide details Marianne's life and travels, fully illustrated throughout with her stunning botanical paintings.
Call Me Marianne

Call Me Marianne

Jen Bryant

A boy meets an older woman at the zoo, and together they observe the animals while she tells him about the process of writing poetry. Includes an author's note about Marianne Moore.
Marianne

Marianne

George Sand

An exciting opportunity for one last glimpse of Sand's genius, Marianne offers the reader a chance to rediscover one of the world's outstanding writers.
Marianne and the Puritan: Transformations of the Couple in ...

Marianne and the Puritan: Transformations of the Couple in ...

David I. Grossvogel

Marianne and the Puritan provides a sociological, political, and aesthetic analysis of French and American cultures as seen through their respective cinemas.
Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development

Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development

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Finally, I wish to thank Marianne, my co-editor, whose friendship and collegiality have enriched both the book and my life. Marianne Marchand's thinking on these issues has been deeply influenced by (still continuing) discussions with Cindy ...
The flock

The flock

Marianne Müller

Somewhere on a rooftop in Brooklyn, an old man breeds pigeons, feeding and flying them. It is an unspectacular, seemingly banal scene, and it is one that photographer Marianne Muller observed and photographed for months.
RSPB Spotlight: Robins

RSPB Spotlight: Robins

Marianne Taylor

In this delightful new book Marianne Taylor provides a revealing account of their life cycle, behaviour and breeding, what they eat, how they hold their territories, and she looks into the many cultural representations of these much-loved ...
Finding Ruby:

Finding Ruby:

Marianne Scott

Marianne Scott. His voice was soft and filled with emotion. I reached for them and they pulled me into an embrace, and we held on to each other, locked together in the pain of sorrow, in the memory of our lost loved ones as silent tears ...
Sophrosyne

Sophrosyne

Marianne Apostolides

Sophrosyne, the provocative new novel by acclaimed author Marianne Apostolides, is about desire and restraint in a digital age.
Why Men Die First: How to Lengthen Your Lifespan

Why Men Die First: How to Lengthen Your Lifespan

Marianne J. Legato, M.D., F.A.C.P.

But the causes of this have long remained unexplored. In this trailblazing book, Dr. Marianne Legato--an expert in gender specific health--examines the reasons behind men's fragility and explains what they need to do to live longer.
A part of my life: photographs

A part of my life: photographs

Marianne Müller

In this book of intimate, sensitive and sensual photographs, the young Swiss artist Marianne Muller recognises the world she inhabits as a series of events which may be important, essential, dramatic, or banal.
Faithfull: An Autobiography

Faithfull: An Autobiography

Marianne Faithfull

From pop stardom through the depths of addiction to her punk-rock comeback, Marianne Faithfull's life captures rock 'n' roll at its most decadent and its most destructive.
When God Took Sides: Religion and Identity in Ireland - ...

When God Took Sides: Religion and Identity in Ireland - ...

Marianne Elliott

Tracing the history of religious identities in Ireland over the last three centuries, Marianne Elliott argues that these two questions are inextricably linked and that the identity of both Catholics and Protestants is shaped by the way that ...
Zen Under Fire: A New Zealand Woman's Story Of Love & War In ...

Zen Under Fire: A New Zealand Woman's Story Of Love & War In ...

Marianne Elliott

And this is just the beginning of her story in Afghanistan. Zen Under Fire is a vivid account of Marianne's experience living and working in the world's most notorious battlefield.
Interfaces Between Polymers, Metals, and Ceramics:

Interfaces Between Polymers, Metals, and Ceramics:

B. M. DeKoven

The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.
Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change

Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change

Adam Kahane

They include, in Reos Partners, Sarah Babb, Jeff Barnum, Marianne Mille Bøjer, Mia Eisenstadt, LeAnne Grillo, Zaid Hassan, Marianne Knuth, Colleen Magner, Joe McCarron, Vanessa Sayers, and Mustafa Suleyman; and in Generon ...

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