Women's writing in English

mentor. I like the way this section was written better because it gave background history of the period and environment that shaped the perspectives of St. Mechthild. I like the way how she explains that St. Mechthild reflects the new concept of women’s religious life where she was more compassionate for the weak and sick. This distinction shows the changing of times and the world because it affects the visions she will tell and write…

in this study. Writing in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, Mew’s poetry straddles the fin de siècle and early modernist periods. Thus Victorian and feminist approaches are used in examining her poetry. Mew's poetic voice is an integral link in women's writing from the end of the nineteenth century into the first two decades of the twentieth century in that it enables contemporary literary criticism to trace the outline of a women's tradition…

Grace focuses on Grace Marks, a women convicted for double murder, and a young doctor who studies her. In her essays and short stories, Atwood shifts her focus onto other topics such as personal experiences, writing, and fashion. “Nine Beginnings” is about Atwood’s personal motivation for writing,…

and explore on the conflicts in personal and cultural relationships. For her writings, she has helped Americans understand the difficulties endured by immigrants in straddling the line between two cultures (Gipe et al., "Jhumpa Lahiri Biography"). Lahiri was born in 1967 in London, England and raised in South Kingstown, Rhode Island of Bengali parents. She attended Barnard College in New York where she focused on English literature. Her career as a writer exploded in 1999. Lahiri is appointed by…

* Write an essay about the theme of performance in Twelfth Night. Few things are as central to a discussion on the theme of performance in Twelfth Night than characterization – that is to say, the function of writing, conceptualizing, and interpreting the fictional personas in the play. Scholarly stances on the issue differ vastly, but the key pivot in this essay – its underlying assumption – shall be that the play’s framing of gender, via the lens of gender-bending, establishes a space in which…

explains how Sylvia, one of the main characters and the use of African-American Vernacular English in the story symbolized the resistance of the Civil Rights Movement by the white people, and the rising tensions between ethnic groups. This language emphasizes the children's distance from the typical white middle-class culture and economic power. However, Bambara also celebrates African-American Vernacular English as a means for conveying black experience: Sylvia uses the language to express her…

the protagonist, a characteristic that would be enhanced and exaggerated in romantic ideals, as well as the mesmerizing and inspirational power of the written word. This is an idea that was taken and transposed by romantics such as John Keats, an English poet who, true to romantic fashion, died tragically at the age of 25, leaving a wealth of unpublished poems and work. Later, many years after his death, he would be remembered as one of the finest romantic poets. In his poem On Looking Into…

EUNUCHS & An INTRODUCTION. Kamala Das is perhaps the most interesting and controversial figure in post-colonial Indian English poetry. She writes with outspokenness and frankness unusual in Indian context. Her private experiences and observations are portrayed in her poetry but those experiences and observations seem to become universal. Her voice also symbolizes the modern women’s voice who wants to free her from the religious orthodoxy (dos and don’ts). Being a confessional poet, Kamala Das…

but representative accounts of life or rather lives of British people in the much popular hill station of colonial India. Though summative, such segments of narration gives what Lanser calls ‘public narration’ in Fictions of Authority. The maiden English women of colonial era, brought from the native soil to entertain the mass of British employees, soldiers working in Indian continent met with lonely, discarded life when they aged. Kasauli used to shelter quite a lot of such maiden ladies for a…

figure of her time. She was revolutionary in her own right. Savitribai Phule’s Writings: • Kavya Phule – (1854) (Poetry’s Blossom) it is a historical document of the time. She consciously chose the traditional form of writing like abhang, which called a folk form. Her language is simple and effective. While some of her poems are basically nature…