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"There is nothing like a dame", proclaims the song from South Pacific. Certainly there is nothing like the fast-talking dame of screen comedies in the 1930s and
Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-19 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it is often perce
Imagining Virginia Woolf
Language: en
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Authors: Maria DiBattista
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Answers the question, 'how does one read an author', by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. This book provides an original way of reading, one that
Novel Characters
Language: en
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Authors: Maria DiBattista
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-24 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the “birth of the novel” in Don Quixote, through the great canon
Playing Smart
Language: en
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Authors: Catherine Keyser
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"With a sense of humor and style, and a smartness of her own, Keyser takes up the cause and the career of a `smart' set of women writers who made a distinct mar