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Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture

Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture

Jones, Suzanne W.

Hardcover

Series: Anniversary Collection

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0812230892
ISBN13: 9780812230895
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
Published: Jan 29 1991
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.84
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. I do not believe that you know. I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.--Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women

Writing The Woman Artist is a collection of essays that explores the ways in which women writers portray women painters, sculptors, writers, and performers. Surveying the works of a variety of women writers--from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from different ethnic, national, racial, and economic backgrounds--this book treats their revisions of the Künstlerroman and their perceptions of the relationships between muse, artist, and audience in other genres. Suzanne W. ]ones and her collaborators seek to understand how representations of women artists and their poetics and politics are mediated by social and historical factors, including literary movements and theories of language. In doing so, they make an important contribution to the field of feminist scholarship, and generate new ways of understanding how the dynamics of creativity intersect with the dynamics of gender.

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