No Gifts from Chance(1st Edition) A Biography of Edith Wharton (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series) by ShariBenstock Paperback, 575 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70274-5, ISBN: 0-292-70274-4
"letters to American friends. ... Less than two months after she wrote this letter, on
a sunny August day at Fontainebleau, she received the wholly unexpected news
that thirty-one-year-old Ronald Simmons, former ... “I really loved him dearly—
and he had a great sort of younger brotherly affection for me. ... friends, she
described Simmons as a “pathetic figure” whose “jolly fatness” had awakened
her affection and pity; shy, extremel ..."
On Fashion(1st Edition) by ShariBenstock, Suzanne Ferriss Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1994 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-2033-9, ISBN: 0-8135-2033-9
" Until recently, fashion was considered the "F-word" in intellectual circles, dismissed as unworthy of serious attention. Yet no area of life, no individual moment, stands outside fashion's discourses. Intuitively, we all know that clothing is a language, incessantly communicating messages about its wearer. But who speaks this language, to whom is it addressed, what does it mean, and how are its meanings established and transforme ..."
The Private Self(Updated) Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings by ShariBenstock Paperback, 326 Pages, Published 1988 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-4218-8, ISBN: 0-8078-4218-4
"This collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies, the essays examine a wide range of private life writings -- letters, journals, diaries, memoirs, pedagogical texts, and fictional and factual autobiographies. The concepts of theory an ..."
""...an important and valuable collection...the essays are at the cutting edge of post modernism." -Maggie Humm, Women's Studies International Forum "This well-written, carefully edited anthology provides an excellent overview of the thicket of contemporary feminist literary theory...No library should be without it." -Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi, Syracuse University, Religious Studies Review "In all, this is a rich and varied collection." -J ..."
No Gifts From Chance(Updated) A Biography of Edith Wharton by ShariBenstock Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 1995 by Penguin Putnam~Trade ISBN-13: 978-0-14-017283-6, ISBN: 0-14-017283-1
"Offers a new approach to the life and work of Edith Wharton (1862-1937), drawing on the recent discovery of 8000 of her letters and examining the intricate network of relations between her life and art, her public reputation and private life. Previous biographies have cast Wharton as a contradictory character, but here the author strives to engage her - one of America's most prolific writers in her time - both as a woman and a writer, e ..."
NO GIFTS FROM CHANCE(1st Edition) A Biography of Edith Wharton by ShariBenstock Hardcover, 560 Pages, Published 1994 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-241-13298-2, ISBN: 0-241-13298-3
"EDITH WHARTON - A BIOGRAPHY - No Gifts from Chance, hardcover, Good, A very good, clean and sound copy in black cloth boards with dust jacket (protective plastic cover)."
"Drawing on many previously unavailable sources, the author of Women of the Left Bank offers a feminist perspective on the life and work of Edith Wharton, from questions about her paternity to her marriage, affairs, and personal relationships."
"We do not purport in this collection to have offered a definitive explanation to the
enduring fascination of shoes, nor do we think it possible to do so, for the very
reasons that our contributors repeatedly suggest: the cultural significance of
shoes is ... Charles Levin (St. Louis: Telos Press, 1981); and Julia Emberley, "The
Fashion Apparatus and the Deconstruction of Postmodern Subjectivity," Kim
Sawchuk, "A Tale of Inscription ..."
"Transcripts of five major addresses and thirteen other essays reflecting the most recent Joyce scholarship as manifested at the 1986 symposium. Ranging widely over the body of Joyce's work, but with somewhat stronger emphasis on Ulysses and Finnegans wake, these articles apply varied analytical approaches such as the process indicated by verbs, modernist ideology, cinema, pedagogy, and ALP's final monologue. Appropriately, perhaps, ther ..."
"Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative "Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism" series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contempo ..."
Women Of The Left Bank by ShariBenstock Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 1994 by Virago Import ISBN-13: 978-0-86068-925-6, ISBN: 0-86068-925-5
""The question that predicates this inquiry is not 'What was it like to be part of literary Paris,'" writes Shari Benstock, but "'What was it like to be a woman in literary Paris?'" That city's Left Bank, says the author, was in the early part of the 20th century "inhabited by all those on the margin of culture, a place for the dislocated, even the dispossessed." Among these expatriates were women writers, editors, poets, journalists, an ..."
Textualizing the Feminine On the Limits of Genre (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory) by ShariBenstock Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 1991 by Univ Of Oklahoma Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-2383-7, ISBN: 0-8061-2383-4
"Book by Benstock, Shari"
Footnotes On Shoes by ShariBenstock, Suzanne Ferriss Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-2870-0, ISBN: 0-8135-2870-4
"This collection of essays explore the many paradoxes inherent in shoes: in collecting, consuming, fashioning, representing, and wearing them. It aims to capture the cultural significance of shoes in art, film, literature, history, folklore, dance, psychology and sexuality."
"The satirical love story is staged as a series of flashbacks over her coffin. Faithful to Edith Wharton's distinct style of dialogue, this dramatic version opened to acclaim in London."
The Private Self Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings by ShariBenstock Hardcover, 326 Pages, Published 1988 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-1791-9, ISBN: 0-8078-1791-0
"This collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies, the essays examine a wide range of private life writings -- letters, journals, diaries, memoirs, pedagogical texts, and fictional and factual autobiographies. The concepts of theory an ..."
No Gifts from Chance (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series) by ShariBenstock Hardcover, Published by Tandem Library ISBN-13: 978-0-613-99867-3, ISBN: 0-613-99867-7