The bitch is back : wicked women in literature / Sarah Appleton Aguiar.
Publication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2001.Description: viii, 173 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0809323613
- 9780809323616
- 0809323621
- 9780809323623
- American fiction -- History and criticism
- Women in literature
- Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries
- Women and literature -- English-speaking countries
- English literature -- History and criticism
- Villains in literature
- Good and evil in literature
- Roman américain -- Histoire et critique
- Femmes dans la littérature
- Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et critique
- Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis
- Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne
- Littérature féministe
- Méchants dans la littérature
- Mal dans la littérature
- American fiction
- English literature
- Good and evil in literature
- Feminism and literature
- Villains in literature
- Women and literature
- Women in literature
- Letterkunde
- Engels
- Amerikaans
- Vrouwen
- Schurken
- Het Kwaad
- Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis
- Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne
- Méchants (personnages) -- Dans la littérature
- Roman américain -- Histoire et critique
- Femmes -- Dans la littérature
- Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et critique
- Féminisme et littérature
- Méchants (personnages)
- Böse Frau
- Literatur
- English-speaking countries
- Englisch
- 813/.5409352 21
- PS374.W6 A36 2001
- 18.05
- 18.06
- Also issued online.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index.
Introduction: The season of the bitch. -- To arche the type or not to arche the type. -- The male perspective. -- Women reading and women writing the bitch. -- Revising the literary history. -- The art of becoming the bitch. -- Syzygy. -- Coda: The bitch code.
Aguiar, focusing on the traits and characteristics of the strong-willed female protagonist, analyzes over one hundred examples in a wide range of literature. Among the characters discussed are Zenia in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride, Ruth Patchett in Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Sula in Toni Morrison's Sula, and Ginny in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres.
Also issued online.
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