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El diario de Bridget Jones

Autor: Helen Fielding

Número de Páginas: 304

El diario de la entrañable, divertida, icónica e inoportuna Bridget Jones. Bridget Jones es un personaje icónico que dio origen a todo un género: una treintañera, soltera y de hábitos poco saludables que comienza a escribir un diario personal. En la primera página, detalla una lista de buenos propósitos para, según ella, convertirse en una mujer adulta y responsable preparada para encontrar a su príncipe azul. Pero, por mucho que Bridget se empeñe, en las peripecias del día a día y en sus relaciones personales seguirá siendo la misma chica, sensible e inocente, inoportuna y patosa pero, ante todo, entrañable y muy, muy divertida. Tras su publicación, y más tarde con la adaptación cinematográfica protagonizada por Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant y Colin Firth, El diario de Bridget Jones supuso un éxito mundial, con más de quince millones de ejemplares vendidos.

Bridget Jones's Baby. Los diarios

Autor: Helen Fielding

Número de Páginas: 174

Bridget Jones sigue sin tener suerte en sus relaciones sentimentales, mientras su reloj biológico está haciendo tictac a todo volumen. Inesperadamente se queda embarazada. Un embarazo feliz pero dominado por una pregunta crucial, aunque tremendamente incómoda: ¿Quién es el padre? ¿Mark Darcy, abogado defensor de derechos humanos, honrado y buena persona? ¿O Daniel Cleaver, encantador, ingenioso y manipulador de primera? Una nueva y divertida novela de las peripecias de Bridget Jones, el entrañable y famoso personaje creado por Helen Fielding. Todo un éxito mundial, tanto en sus novelas como en sus adaptaciones cinematográficas.

Eldiario de Bridget Jones

Autor: Helen Fielding

Número de Páginas: 0

Historia de un plan

Autor: Osvaldo Flores Weber

Número de Páginas: 183

Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary

Autor: Imelda Whelehan

Número de Páginas: 100

This is an excellent guide to Helen Fielding's genre-defining novel. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative and helpful. This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

Focus On: 100 Most Popular Films Based on British Novels

Autor: Wikipedia Contributors

Número de Páginas: 994

Marketing Literature

Autor: C. Squires

Número de Páginas: 245

This is an important study of the publishing of contemporary writing in Britain. It analyzes the changing social, economic and cultural environment of the publishing industry in the 1990s-2000s, and investigates its impact on genre, authorship and reading. It includes case studies of Trainspotting and the His Dark Materials trilogy.

The Rom-Com Ultimate Trivia Book

Autor: Neal E. Fischer

Número de Páginas: 258

With over 500 questions, facts, and quizzes from the top 100 romantic comedies, The Rom-Com Ultimate Trivia Book will test fans to see how much they know about the most iconic rom-com movie moments.

Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture

Autor: Cathy Mcglynn , Margaret O'neill , Michaela Schrage-früh

Número de Páginas: 338

This timely collection engages with representations of women and ageing in literature and visual culture. Acknowledging that cultural conceptions of ageing are constructed and challenged across a variety of media and genres, the editors bring together experts in literature and visual culture to foster a dialogue across disciplines. Exploring the process of ageing in its cultural reflections, refractions and reimaginings, the contributors to Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture analyse how artists, writers, directors and performers challenge, and in some cases reaffirm, cultural constructions of ageing women, as well as give voice to ageing women’s subjectivities. The book concludes with an afterword by Germaine Greer which suggests possible avenues for future research.

El desmantelamiento del feminismo. Género, Cultura y Cambio Social

Autor: Angela Mcrobbie

Número de Páginas: 295

Encontraremos en esta obra la argumentación de Angela McRobbie que le permite defender que los medios de la cultura popular contemporánea como la televisión, el cine y las revistas de moda, son perniciosamente efectivos en el desmantelamiento de los logros del feminismo de los años 70 y 80. Y que esto sucede a la vez que tenemos la percepción de responder al feminismo de manera bien informada, incluso bien intencionada. Más aún, nos insiste en que vivimos con la tranquilidad de que el Estado y los poderes públicos tienen en su agenda garantizar el reconocimiento y la igualdad de las mujeres. Si añadimos a estos ingredientes la autorización que se está dando a la cultura de consumo nos encontramos con un tipo específico de sujeto femenino, sobre el cual recaen los acontecimientos de la vida asociados a las categorías de mujer y de niña a través de la libertad sexual, el control de fecundidad, el retraso en la edad de casarse y en la maternidad o incluso, ¿por qué no? la posibilidad de permanecer soltera. ¿No nos recuerda esto a las peripecias de la ingenua Bridget Jones? Entre las reflexiones brillantes de Angela McRobbie figura que, lo que en el pasado era una...

Love Across the Atlantic

Autor: Barbara Jane Brickman

Número de Páginas: 313

From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the BG, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture.

Gender and the Media

Autor: Rosalind Gill

Número de Páginas: 299

Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates. Eschewing a straightforwardly positive or negative assessment the book explores the contradictory character of contemporary gender representations, where confident expressions of girl power sit alongside reports of epidemic levels of anorexia among young women, moral panics about the impact on men of idealized representations of the 'six-pack', but near silence about the pervasive re-sexualization of women's bodies, along with a growing use of irony and playfulness that render critique extremely difficult. The book looks in depth at five areas of media - talk shows, magazines, news, advertising, and contemporary screen and paperback romances - to examine how representations of women and men are changing in the twenty-first century, partly in response to feminist, queer and anti-racist critique. Gender and the Media is also concerned with the theoretical tools available for analysing representations. A range of approaches from semiotics to...

Chick Lit

Autor: Suzanne Ferriss , Mallory Young

Número de Páginas: 284

From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the Citythat captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the same life challenges, publishers have earned millions and even created separate imprints dedicated to the genre. Not surprisingly, some highbrow critics have dismissed chick lit as trashy fiction, but fans have argued that it is as empowering as it is entertaining. This is the first volume of its kind to examine the chick lit phenomenon from a variety of angles, accounting for both its popularity and the intense reactions-positive and negative-it has provoked. The contributors explore the characteristics that cause readers to attach the moniker "chick" to a particular book and what, if anything, distinguishes the category of chick lit from the works of Jane Austen on one end and Harlequin romance novels on the other. They critique the genre from a range of critical perspectives, considering its conflicted relationship with feminism and postfeminism, heterosexual romance, body image, and...

Gender and Popular Culture

Autor: Katie Milestone , Anneke Meyer

Número de Páginas: 250

This book examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society. It draws on a wide range of popular cultural forms - including popular music, newspapers and television - to illustrate how femininity and masculinity are produced, represented and consumed. The authors blend primary and secondary research to offer the reader a balanced yet novel overview of the area. Students are introduced to key theories and concepts in the fields of gender studies and popular culture, which are made accessible and interesting through their application to topical examples such as DJs, binge drinking and computer games. The book is structured into three clear, user-friendly sections: 1. Production, gender and popular culture: An investigation of who produces popular culture, why gendered patterns occur, and how they impact on content. 2. Representation, gender and popular culture: An examination of how men and women are represented in contemporary popular culture, and how notions of (in)appropriate femininity and masculinity are constructed. 3. Consumption, gender and popular culture: An exploration of who consumes what in popular culture, how...

Chick Lit and Postfeminism

Autor: Stephanie Harzewski

Número de Páginas: 212

The author offers a scholarly dissection of "chick lit" from a post-feminist perspective. She analyzes the novel Bridget Jones' Diary and the HBO series Sex and the City while making parallels back to writings of Jane Austen and the Victorian novel in general. She looks at what these works say about women in society and whether they are just an escape or a serious reflection of women's concerns.

Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction

Autor: Geoff Hamilton , Brian Jones

Número de Páginas: 412

Covers contemporary authors and works that have enjoyed commercial success in the United States but are typically neglected by more "literary" guides. Provides high school and college students with everything they need to know to understand the authors and works of American popular fiction.

The History of the Book in the West: 19142000

Autor: Alexis Weedon

Número de Páginas: 583

This collection brings together published papers on key themes which book historians have identified as of particular significance in the history of twentieth-century publishing. It reprints some of the best comparative perspectives and most insightful and innovatively presented scholarship on publishing and book history from such figures as Philip Altbach, Lewis Coser, James Curran, Elizabeth Long, Laura Miller, Angus Phillips, Janice Radway, Jonathan Rose, Shafquat Towheed, Catherine Turner, Jay Satterfield, Clare Squires, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén. It is arranged into six sections which examine the internationalisation of publishing businesses, changing notions of authorship, innovation in the design and marketing of books, the specific effects of globalisation on creative property and the book in a multimedia marketplace. Twentieth-century book history attracts an audience beyond the traditional disciplines of librarianship, bibliography, history and literary studies. It will appeal to publishing educators, editors, publishers, booksellers, as well as academics with an interest in media and popular culture.

Production Design & the Cinematic Home

Autor: Jane Barnwell

Número de Páginas: 183

This book uses in-depth case studies to explore the significance of the design of the home on screen. The chapters draw widely upon the production designer’s professional perspective and particular creative point of view. The case studies employ a methodology Barnwell has pioneered for the analysis of production design called Visual Concept Analysis, which can be used as a key to decode the design of any given film. Through the nurturing warmth of the Browns’ home in Paddington, the ambiguous boundaries of secret service agent homes in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the ‘singleton’ space occupied by Bridget Jones, Barnwell demonstrates that the domestic interior consistently plays a key role. Whether used as a transition space, an ideal, a catalyst for change or a place to return to, these case studies examine the pivotal nature of the home in storytelling and the production designers’ significance in its creation. The book benefits from interviews with production designers and artwork that provides insight on the creative process.

Turning Points

Autor: Ansgar Nünning , Kai Marcel Sicks

Número de Páginas: 472

At times of crisis and revolution such as ours, diagnoses of crucial junctures and ruptures – ‘turning points’ – in the continuous flow of history are more prevalent than ever. Analysing literary, cinematic and other narratives, the volume seeks to understand the meanings conveyed by different concepts of turning points, the alternative concepts to which they are opposed when used to explain historical change, and those contexts in which they are unmasked as false and over-simplifying constructions. Literature and film in particular stress the importance of turning points as a sensemaking device (as part of a character’s or a community’s cultural memory), while at the same time unfolding the constructive and hence relative character of turning points. Offering complex reflections on the notion of turning points, literary and filmic narratives are thus of particular interest to the present volume.

El circuito de los signos

Autor: Nattie Golubov

Número de Páginas: 234

El libro es un estudio introductorio al campo de fuerzas conocido como los estudios culturales, que se dirige a los curiosos interesados en saber de qué se trata este fenómeno académico del que tanto se habla pero poco se sabe en nuestro país. Estamos frente a un libro pedagógico en el que la autora, además de exponer algunos de los conceptos y temas fundamentales para los estudios culturales, ha incluido ejercicios prácticos con el propósito de poner a prueba lo explicado, así como un glosario de términos, ejemplos y lecturas sugeridas de fácil acceso. Este pequeño libro, entonces, está orientado a exponer los compromisos políticos y objetivos de los estudios culturales, que esencialmente se ocupan del análisis crítico de la cultura, entendida como el software de la vida humana en el sentido de que consiste en una amplia gama de fenómenos que incluye sistemas de valores, creencias, rituales, costumbres, ideologías, identidades, formas de habla y de interacción social, símbolos que distinguen a una comunidad de otra. El libro está organizado a partir de algunos conceptos fundamentales para los estudios culturales, como ideología, representación, identidad,...

Modern Confessional Writing

Autor: Jo Gill

Número de Páginas: 218

This collection of essays provides a critique of the popular and powerful genre of confessional writing. Contributors discuss a range of poetry, prose and drama, including the work of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.

The History of the Book in the West: 19142000

Autor: Alexis Weedon

Número de Páginas: 583

This collection brings together published papers on key themes which book historians have identified as of particular significance in the history of twentieth-century publishing. It reprints some of the best comparative perspectives and most insightful and innovatively presented scholarship on publishing and book history from such figures as Philip Altbach, Lewis Coser, James Curran, Elizabeth Long, Laura Miller, Angus Phillips, Janice Radway, Jonathan Rose, Shafquat Towheed, Catherine Turner, Jay Satterfield, Clare Squires, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén. It is arranged into six sections which examine the internationalisation of publishing businesses, changing notions of authorship, innovation in the design and marketing of books, the specific effects of globalisation on creative property and the book in a multimedia marketplace. Twentieth-century book history attracts an audience beyond the traditional disciplines of librarianship, bibliography, history and literary studies. It will appeal to publishing educators, editors, publishers, booksellers, as well as academics with an interest in media and popular culture.

Sexing the Look in Popular Visual Culture

Autor: Kathy Justice Gentile

Número de Páginas: 270

With dramatic advances in media technology, the practice of sexing or erotically enhancing images has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon. The eroticized “look,” as both noun and verb, the thing or image that draws our look, and the look that we bestow on images that elicit our visual, physiological, and emotional attention, is the focus of the essays in this volume. Every day, whether we are out in the world or in the workplace or in the privacy of our homes, we enter visual fields that heighten and distort reality, distortions that often emphasize sexuality and erotic promise. The contributors for this collection look at the sexualization of visual culture from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including literature, film studies, history, philosophy, art history, and media studies, with gender and sexuality studies providing the encompassing critical framework that binds these essays into a coherent analytical project. The essays in this collection offer new theoretical conceptions of perception and representation, as well as rigorous reconsiderations of the polarized feminist debates over pornographic images. Essays on literature and film range from an...

Semantic Search over the Web

Autor: Roberto De Virgilio , Francesco Guerra , Yannis Velegrakis

Número de Páginas: 418

The Web has become the world’s largest database, with search being the main tool that allows organizations and individuals to exploit its huge amount of information. Search on the Web has been traditionally based on textual and structural similarities, ignoring to a large degree the semantic dimension, i.e., understanding the meaning of the query and of the document content. Combining search and semantics gives birth to the idea of semantic search. Traditional search engines have already advertised some semantic dimensions. Some of them, for instance, can enhance their generated result sets with documents that are semantically related to the query terms even though they may not include these terms. Nevertheless, the exploitation of the semantic search has not yet reached its full potential. In this book, Roberto De Virgilio, Francesco Guerra and Yannis Velegrakis present an extensive overview of the work done in Semantic Search and other related areas. They explore different technologies and solutions in depth, making their collection a valuable and stimulating reading for both academic and industrial researchers. The book is divided into three parts. The first introduces the...

Literary Intermediality

Autor: Maddalena Pennacchia Punzi

Número de Páginas: 264

The increasing transfer of literary texts and of related writing/reading processes from the printed page to analog and digital media (and vice versa) is the phenomenon under investigation in this book, for which the term 'literary intermediality' has been coined. Literature is 'in transit', i.e. travelling incessantly through mass-media, personal-media, and the internet, with crucial effects both on the ways it is perceived by younger generations of users and on the ways it is devised by contemporary authors. The literary text far from being restricted to printed media keeps moving across the whole media circuit, thus acquiring at any stage a new, temporary identity. Based on the seminar «Intermediality and Literary Practices» at the 7th ESSE Conference in 2004, the essays of this collection by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic focus on the seminar's common topics - cinema, theatre, postmodernism, and new critical issues.

At the Interface

Número de Páginas: 206

In a world increasingly characterised by perpetual re-invention through the dynamic flows of capital, persons and ideas, understanding change and transformation is an imperative. The purpose of this book is a first step in a project to engage the dynamics of transformation at the interface of culture and politics, through contextualisation, reflection and a sharing of intellectual resources. Bringing together the work of academics from a range of disciplines, who share an overarching aim to map such transformations, the volume covers themes ranging from popular culture, the Internet, to film and cinema. Casting a contemporary gaze on cultural phenomena, the contributors all seek to trace trajectories of change and continuity from within their own specific field, using a range of approaches from theoretical reflection to empirical case studies. Of general interest to students of the humanities and social sciences, and of particular interest for students of cultural studies and communication at all levels, this volume constitutes a unique opportunity to reflect on recent transformations but also on the persistence of certain cultural and political practices.

Single Women in Popular Culture

Autor: A. Taylor

Número de Páginas: 251

Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture.

The Adventures of Cinema Dave in the Florida Motion Picture World

Autor: Dave Montalbano

Número de Páginas: 654

The Adventures of Cinema Dave is a celebration of films from the turn of the recent century. Dave Montalbano, alias Cinema Dave, wrote over 500 film reviews and interviewed Hollywood Legends such as Fay Wray, Louise Fletcher, Dyan Cannon and new talent like Josh Hutcherson, Jane Lynch and Courtney Ford. With South Florida as his home base, Cinema Dave details his growing involvement with the Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Delray Film Festivals, while covering local interest stories about individuals who contribute to the film culture. Featuring a fun introduction from Cindy Morgan, actress from Caddyshack and Tron fame, and an extensive appendix of Literary Cinema, The Adventures of Cinema Dave is a saga about one mans bibliomania and his pursuit of an entertaining story in the big cave known as cinema.

The Aftermath of Feminism

Autor: Angela Mcrobbie

Número de Páginas: 193

In this trenchant inquiry into the state of feminism, Angela McRobbie breaks open the politics of sexual equality and ′affirmative feminism′ and sets down a new theory of gender power. Challenging the most basic assumptions of the ′end′ of feminism, this book argues that invidious forms of gender re-stabilisation are being re-established. Consumer and popular culture encroach on the terrain of so-called female freedom, appearing supportive of female success, yet tying women into new post-feminist neurotic dependencies. With a scathing critique of ′women′s empowerment′, McRobbie has developed a distinctive feminist analysis that she uses to examine socio-cultural phenomena embedded in contemporary women′s lives: from fashion photography and the television ′make-over′ genre to eating disorders, body anxiety and ′illegible rage′. A turning point in feminist theory, The Aftermath of Feminism will set a new agenda for gender studies and cultural studies.

Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment

Autor: Benjamin Nickl

Número de Páginas: 218

Turkish German comedy culture and the lived realities of Turkish Muslims in Germany Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been asking for decades what it means to be German and what it means for Turkish Germans, Muslims of the second and third generations, to call Germany their home. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the dynamics that underpin these questions in the still-evolving popular culture space of German mainstream humour in the 21st century. The first book-length study on the topic to combine close readings of film, television, literary and online comedy, and transnational culture studies, Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment presents the argument that Turkish German humour has moved from margin to mainstream by intervening in cultural incompatibility and Islamophobia discourse. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Londres Cityguide 10ed

Autor: Lonely Planet

Número de Páginas: 522

Lonely Planet : un guide de référence, à la fois pratique et culturel, pour découvrir Londres Une nouvelle édition tout en couleurs avec beaucoup de photos. Un guide spécialement conçu pour les voyages en profondeur, avec un maximum d'informations pour pouvoir organiser un séjour en fonction de ses intérêts, du temps et du budget disponible. Des plans et des illustrations en 3D présentent en détail les sites emblématiques de la capitale anglaise, comme la Tour de Londres ou les bords de la Tamise. Pour les visiteurs réguliers, une liste des nouveautés à explorer. Des adresses classées par genre et par catégorie pour trouver les meilleurs restaurants indiens, les pubs les plus conviviaux ou encore les friperies les plus trendies.

Postfemininities in Popular Culture

Autor: Stéphanie Genz

Número de Páginas: 223

Addressing the contradictions surrounding modern-day femininity and its complicated relationship with feminism and postfeminism, this book examines a range of popular female and feminist icons and paradigms. It offers an innovative and forward-looking perspective on femininity and the modern female self.

The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit

Autor: Heike Missler

Número de Páginas: 366

Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (1997). Branded by their pink or pastel-coloured book covers, chick-lit novels have been a highly successful and ubiquitous product of women's popular culture since the late 1990s. This study traces the evolution of chick lit not only as a genre of popular fiction, but as a cultural phenomenon. It complicates the genealogy of the texts by situating them firmly in the context of age-old debates about female literary creation, and by highlighting the dynamics of the popular-fiction market. Offering a convincing dissection of the formula which lies at the heart of chick lit, as well as in-depth analyses of a number of chick-lit titles ranging from classic to more recent and edgier texts, this book yields new insights into a relatively young field of academic study. Its close readings provide astute assessments of chick lit's notoriously skewed representational politics, especially with regard to sexuality and ethnicity, which feed into current discussions about postfeminism. Moreover, the study makes a unique...

The Advocate

Número de Páginas: 72

The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

Discovering Statistics Using R

Autor: Andy Field , Jeremy Miles , Zoë Field

Número de Páginas: 994

The R version of Andy Field's hugely popular Discovering Statistics Using SPSS takes students on a journey of statistical discovery using the freeware R. Like its sister textbook, Discovering Statistics Using R is written in an irreverent style and follows the same ground-breaking structure and pedagogical approach. The core material is enhanced by a cast of characters to help the reader on their way, hundreds of examples, self-assessment tests to consolidate knowledge, and additional website material for those wanting to learn more.

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003

Autor: Roger Ebert

Número de Páginas: 916

Every single new Ebert review.

The Role of Women

Autor: Jeannette Nedoma

Número de Páginas: 41

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, course: Dandies& Metrossexuals, David Beckham& Bridget Jones: A Cultural History of Gender in the UK, language: English, abstract: Pride and Prejudice as well as Helen Fielding's successful novel Bridget Jones's Diary deal with the role of women in their contemporary societies and the skills the "accomplished woman" should have. One might think that the concept of the "accomplished woman" is only relevant in the 19th century but Fielding's funny revised edition of the Pride and Prejudice subject has shown that this idea is still present nowadays. Since Austen's novel was published in 1813 almost two centuries have passed, the role of women in society has changed through the years because of the feminist movements beginning in the 1960s. Nowadays women are able to depend completely on their own. They are not longer inferior to men, they gained the right to vote in the early 20th century and are able to have successful careers. Nevertheless the concept of the "accomplished woman" seems to be still significant at the present time. Fielding manages to move the concept of...

Culture and Power

Autor: Eduardo De Gregorio-godeo , Ángel Mateos-aparicio Martin-albo

Número de Páginas: 290

Questions of identity and identification are among the most important evolving concerns of contemporary cultural studies. Through processes of personal identification with discursively constructed subject positions, identities emerge across a wide range of cultural practices in the course of social interactions involving the use of language and other semiotic systems manifested in cultural artefacts of various kinds. The present collection includes a selection of papers on the topic of identity and identification in cultural studies today. Incorporating theoretical contributions and practical case studies, this monograph adds to contemporary debates on identity-forging practices from various theoretical positions in different social, historic and national contexts. The chapters of this volume range from overtly theoretical discussions on the construction of identities and subjectivities in post-modernity, to examinations of the crucial role of (print) media in identity-construction and -representation processes in contemporary social formations through an insight into other key issues in cultural studies, such as gender politics and the construction of femininities, the...

American Life and Best Sellers from The Catcher in the Rye to The Hunger Games

Autor: Diane Dakers

Número de Páginas: 114

A good book has the power to touch readers and provide insightful commentary into the human condition and current events. This title examines the greatest literary hits to take America by storm from the 1950s to present day.

Masquerade and Femininity

Autor: Urszula Chowaniec , Ursula Phillips , Marja Rytkönen

Número de Páginas: 267

Masquerade and Femininity: Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers introduces the reader to the diversity of women’s writing in Poland and Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries in the light of the notion of masquerade. The present articles scrutinize particular works by women writers (Nadezhda Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia, Irina Odoevtseva, Vera Pavlova, Narcyza Żmichowska, Maria Komornicka, Irena Krzywicka and others) and the strategies of masquerading female experience. Taken together, the articles draw attention to the feeling of an inexpressible gap between the living body (and its everyday life experience of pain and suffering or happiness and pleasure) and the culturally constructed, powerfully imposed code of expression that readily makes use of various masks, guises and acts of pretending, applied especially cleverly in literary works. The concept of masquerade illuminates the complexity of what we call “femininity” by combining two sides of the divide: the real feelings and the constructed expressions. This volume uses both feminist and non-feminist approaches to women’s writing and sheds new light on the themes of femininity, woman’s identity, experience,...