Edited by Kevin McMullen, Sophie Anderson, Kayla Barnes, Ian Byington, Sam Cobb, Sarah Danielson, Hanna Dannar, Drew Fridrich, Edison Geiler, Rylee Gregg, Marissa Hanley, Bella Hardy, Michael Hodge, Ben Jezewski, Jackson Kissler, Wallace Langdon, Madalyn Meyer, Zoë Olson, Angelina Pattavina, Gabriel Reiman, Grace Reiman, Halle Ross, Audrey Salber, Fatima Salman, McKenna Sender, Presley Shonka, Paige Trutna and Tyler Wagner
Publisher: Saluki Publishing
Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln annotated and wrote the introduction to the 1915 edition of Susan Glaspell's novel Fidelity, the only edition published during Glaspell's lifetime.
Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century B.C.Eand ending with Egeria in the fifth century C.E., Snyder profiles ancient Greek and Roman women writers, including lyric and elegiac poets and philosophers and other prose writers.
By demonstrating how the rhetorical theories of Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, and Adrienne Rich may be extrapolated from their Anglo-American feminist texts through an examination of the interrelationship between _what_ and _how_ these authors write, Ratcliffe provides a new model for the study of women’s writing.
In the early 1920s, Fannie Hurst’s enormous popularity made her the highest-paid writer in America. She conquered the literary scene at the same time the silent movie industry began to emerge as a tremendously profitable and popular form of entertainment. Abe C. Ravitz parallels Hurst’s growing acclaim with the evolution of silent films, from which she borrowed ideas and techniques that furthered her career.
The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women
by Shirley Wilson Logan
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Shirley Wilson Logan analyzes the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women, concentrating on the public discourse of club and church women from 1880...
Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance
by Cheryl Glenn
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
After explaining how and why women have been excluded from the rhetorical tradition from antiquity through the Renaissance, Cheryl Glenn provides the opportunity for Sappho, Aspasia, Diotima, Hortensia,...
Ruth Stone has always eschewed self-promotion and, in the words of Leslie Fiedler, "has never been a member of any school or clique or gaggle of mutual admirers." But her poems speak so vibrantly for her that she cannot be ignored.
Roughly chronological, these essays explore Barnes’ early work in the New York newspaper world of the ‘teens, proceed through the 1954 publication of The Antiphon, and include several approaches to such works as Ryder, Ladies Almanack, and Nightwood. This judicious mix of essays—many of them illustrated by photographs and drawings—presents a comprehensive picture of the creative imagination of Djuna Barnes.
