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Literary Research Guide

Name: Literary Research Guide
Author: James L. Harner
ISBN: 9780873529822

by James L. Harner

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The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, created in 1974, has played a major role in establishing the legitimacy and visibility of feminist inquiry. The early award-winning essays are available in the MLA volume Courage and Tools. This volume presents the seventeen essays that won the award for the years 1990-2004, an era that witnessed a diversification of the objects of feminist study and critical approaches. Essays treat authors ranging from well-known writers such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Gwendolyn Brooks, Doris Lessing, and Virginia Woolf to less familiar writers such as the Magreb author Assia Djebar, the Spanish poet Concha Méndez, the Native American writer Zitkala-Sa, and the Palestinian novelists Liana Badr and Sahar Khalifeh. Essayists explore their topics through a multiplicity of perspectives, including race and ethnicity studies, cultural studies, psychoanalysis and film theory, nationhood and nationalism, and discourses of aging. Each award winner has written a short afterword, reflecting on her essay and her critical practice.

The volume includes a foreword by Florence Howe, cofounder of the Feminist Press, and an afterword by Annette Kolodny, an early recipient of the Florence Howe award.

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Evaluates important reference materials in English studies such as dictionaries, encyclopedia, bibliographies, libraries and catalogs, archives, journals, internet resources, and biographies. Chapters also focus on the literature from the various English-speaking counties, including partly-English- speaking part-counties like Wales. First published in 1989 and updated from the 1992 edition to account for new publications. Revisions are now available on the World Wide Web. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.