The Silent Woman

Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847085660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
The Silent Woman is a brilliant, elegantly reasoned meditation on the nature of biography. Janet Malcolm (author of Reading Chekhov, The Journalist and the Murderer, In the Freud Archives) examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne Stevenson's controversial Bitter Fruit, to discover how Plath became the enigma of literary history, and how the legend continues to exert such a hold on our imaginations.

Bitter Fame

Author: Anne Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140103731
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 413

Book Description
A biography of the American poet Sylvia Plath which presents a different view of her life and death by shifting any blame away from Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, and suggesting the problems lay in her personality difficulties.

Myth of the Silent Woman

Author: Suellen Diaconoff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Beginning in the 1980s and gathering force in the last decade of the twentieth century, Moroccan women writers have become the latest group of Middle Eastern women to break their silence by writing both fiction and non-fiction. The Myth of the Silent Woman examines representative French-language texts from Moroccan women writers. Suellen Diaconoff situates these works in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation. In novels and short stories, essays and memoirs, including one powerful text by a dissident and former political prisoner, these authors contest hegemonic systems of thought and practice, reappraise traditional spaces and limits, shatter taboos and transgress borders. In so doing, they profoundly undermine easy assumptions about Arab women, feminism, and democracy, while boldly challenging the stereotype of the silent woman.

Epicoene

Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515119777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Epicoene, or The silent woman, also known as Epicene, is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson. It was originally performed by the Blackfriars Children or Children of the Queen's Revels, a group of boy players, in 1609. It was, by Jonson's admission, a failure on its first presentation; however, John Dryden and others championed it, and after the Restoration it was frequently revived-indeed, a reference by Samuel Pepys to a performance on 6 July 1660 places it among the first plays legally performed after Charles II's ascension. The play takes place in London. Morose, a wealthy old man with an obsessive hatred of noise, has made plans to disinherit his nephew Dauphine by marrying. His bride Epic ne is, he thinks, an exceptionally quiet woman; he does not know that Dauphine has arranged the whole match for purposes of his own. The couple are married despite the well-meaning interference of Dauphine's friend True-wit. Morose soon regrets his wedding day, as his house is invaded by a charivari that comprises Dauphine, True-wit, and Clerimont; a bear warden named Otter and his wife; two stupid knights, La Foole and Daw; and an assortment of "collegiates," vain and scheming women with intellectual pretensions. Worst for Morose, Epic ne quickly reveals herself as a loud, nagging mate."

The Silent Women

Author: Sara Blaedel
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 1538759829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Homicide detective Louise Rick chases a terrifying serial rapist who meets women on a popular online dating website in this fast-paced #1 internationally bestselling thriller from Sara Blaedel, whose books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide. An online flirtation can have horrific consequences, as Detective Louise Rick discovers when she is called to an idyllic Copenhagen neighborhood where a young woman has been left bound and gagged after a profoundly brutal rape attack. Susanne Hansson met her rapist on a popular dating website. But the man is hiding behind a labyrinth of false pseudonyms, and neither Susanne--nor the police--have been able to trace his true identity. With the internet as his playground, the rapist will almost certainly strike again if Louise can't unmask him before it's too late. Incredible suspense and a diabolical series of twists take Sara Blaedel's wildly popular series to new heights.

The Silent Woman

Author: Monika Zgustová
Publisher: Feminist Press
ISBN: 9781558618411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A rapturous novel of love, longing and exile, The Silent Woman depicts a woman's life against a backdrop of war and political turmoil. Sylva, half Czech and half German, is born into an aristocratic family and lives outside Prague. She marries a man she doesn't love and is seduced by the joyful madness of Paris in the 1920s. When the Nazis force her to state her loyalty, she yields, not realising how this decision will haunt the rest of her life. Later in communist Prague, Sylva is destitute. When she learns a long lost love was sent to the Gulags, she goes searching for him.

Reading Chekhov

Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847085652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St Petersburg. Malcolm demonstrates how the shadow of death that hovered over most of Chekhov's literary career - he became consumptive in his twenties and died in his forties - is almost everywhere reflected in the work. She writes of his childhood, his relationship with his family, his marriage, his travels, his early success, his exile to Yalta - always with an eye to connecting them to his themes and characters.

Epicoene

Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description

The Silent Lady

Author: Catherine Cookson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780743227612
Category : Attorney and client
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The appearance of Irene Baindor at the London law offices of Alexander Armstrong leads him to trace the last twenty-six years of her life back to a terrible event that robbed her of most of her voice and memory.

The Silent Wife

Author: Karin Slaughter
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062858912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590

Book Description
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! “If you’re into mystery thrillers, then you’re into Karin Slaughter.” —THESKIMM He watches. He waits. He takes. Who will be next . . . THE SILENT WIFE Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the inmates claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack for which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there—a serial killer who has systematically been preying on women across the state for years. If Will reopens the investigation and implicates the dead police officer with a hero’s reputation of wrongdoing, the opportunistic convict is willing to provide the information GBI needs about the riot murder. Only days ago, another young woman was viciously murdered in a state park in northern Georgia. Is it a fluke, or could there be a serial killer on the loose? As Will Trent digs into both crimes it becomes clear that he must solve the cold case in order to find the answer. Yet nearly a decade has passed—time for memories to fade, witnesses to vanish, evidence to disappear, and lies to become truth. But Will can’t crack either mystery without the help of the one person he doesn’t want involved: his girlfriend and Jeffrey Tolliver’s widow, medical examiner Sara Linton. When the past and present begin to collide, Will realizes that everything he values is at stake . . .