Making use of recent feminist critical theory, Doane considers Gertrude Stein's modernist preoccupation with narrative silence in her early novels. She demonstrates the effects of this preoccupation on Stein's literary development, from the conventionality of her first novel, Q.E.D., through Fernhurst and Three Lives, to the radical transgressions against narrative intelligibility in The Making Of Americans. Doane, contending that Stein's ultimate revolt against traditional modes of discourse is directly attributable to her position as a woman writer, effectively elaborates the possibilities of creating an alternative feminist discourse and explores the ways in which gender may contribute to meaning.

Recollections of Anaïs Nin presents Nin through the eyes of twenty-six people who knew her. She is the unconventional, distant aunt; the thoughtful friend; the owner of a strangely disarming voice; the author eager for attention yet hypersensitive to criticism; the generous advisor to a literary magazine; the adulteress; the beautiful septuagenarian; the recommender of books--the contributors elaborate on thses and many other perceptions of Nin. Readers of this book will meet one of the most enigmatic literary women of the twentieth century.

In this engaging and innovative analysis, Nicole Ward Jouve, offers an original rereading of the work of Colette.

Opstellen, jaarkroniek en primaire en secundaire jaarbibliografie over de Nederlandse schrijver (geb. 1923-2006).

Klassieke schelmen- en ontwikkelingsroman uit de Duitse barok over de wederwaardigheden van een simpele man tijdens de 30-jarige oorlog (1618-1648).

Since the appearance of Lotman's Poetics of the Artistic Text (1970) and Universe of the Mind (1990), and Eco's Introduction to Semiotics (1972), the investigation of the working of signs in language, the arts and the sciences has witnessed an ever-increasing impact on our understanding of human culture. In this book an attempt is made at developing a linguistic model for the semiotics of culture, and to apply this to the analysis of a number of Russian and Polish dramatic texts, mostly from the nineteenth-century. In the first five chapters such well known plays as Ostrovskij's The Thunderstorm, Turgenev's A Month in the Country and Gogol's The Inspector-General are discussed, alternatively with Stowacki's Fantazy and some of Fredro's comedies. Special chapters are devoted to the performance of drama, and to some urgent issues concerning the structure of semiotic space. The last and most lengthy chapter presents an outline of so-called text linguistics, here conceived as a variety of case grammar, duely revised for application to the analysis of drama and its non-verbal context.The book addresses itself to readers familiar with Slavic languages and interested in the relation between language and literary themes, and the place of drama in culture.

Beschouwing over de bekendheid van Nederlandse literaire en niet-literaire schrijvers gedurende een periode van achthonderd jaar.

Dans ce livre construit comme un labyrinthe où l'on se retrouve grâce à l'ordre de l'alphabet, l'auteur s'efforce de comprendre le bonheur qui traverse le langage. Dans cet univers où chaque nom est un toucher, le lecteur est confronté pas à pas au propre du langage.

Schets van het voor vrouwen discriminerende karakter van veel alledaags Nederlands taalgebruik.