1st Edition
Embodying Beauty Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' Aesthetics
By Malin Pereira
Copyright 2000
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study argues that twentieth-century American women writers' textual representations of female beauty generally recognize a link between beauty standards and aesthetic ideology, exploring female beauty as a symptom of prevailing ideas about art and esthetics. Female beauty, in their texts, is not merely an issue of whether a female character is pretty or not; it is an expression of the... Read more
The First Generation; Chapter 1 In Dialogue with Dominant Aesthetics: H.D. and Zora Neale Hurston; contextII The Second Generation; Chapter 2 In Search of “Part Two”: Gwendolyn Brooks and Sylvia Plath; Chapter 3 Figuring and Re-Figuring the Colonizer's Aesthetics: Louise Glück and Toni Morrison; conclusion Conclusion;
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Malin Pereira
