Plain & ugly Janes : the rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction /
"If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new charac...
| Основен автор: | Wright, Charlotte M. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2006]
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=236453 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Plain & ugly Janes. |
| Резюме: |
"If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970s, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power-heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive acc. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiii, 136 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781587297779 1587297779 9780877459941 0877459940 |