The Female Imagination - A Literary and Psychological Investigation of Women's Writing

In this book, first published in 1976, the author analyses the female view of the world. Juxtaposing - sometimes in startlingly original combination some 80 books written between the 17th century and the 20th century she uses both literary and psychological analysis to explore patterns that recur again and again in the stories women tell.

List of contents

Acknowledgements, Prologue, 1. Theorists, 2. Power and Passivity, 3. Taking Care, 4. The Adolescent as Heroine, 5. The Artist as Woman, 6. Finger Posts, 7. The World Outside, 8. Free Women, Afterword, Work Cited, Index

Summary

In this book, first published in 1976, the author analyses the female view of the world. Juxtaposing – sometimes in startlingly original combination some 80 books written between the 17th century and the 20th century she uses both literary and psychological analysis to explore patterns that recur again and again in the stories women tell.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Meyer Spacks, Spacks Patricia Meyer
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032263700
• ISBN: 978-1-03-226370-0
• No. of pages: 348
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women and Writing
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers