Strategies of Reticence
Title | Strategies of Reticence PDF eBook |
Author | Janis P. Stout |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780813912622 |
This work examines the unspoken in the work of four women writers - Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion - as a consciously employed feminist rhetoric. Acknowledging that reticence is often enforced by patriarchal silencing of women. Stout argues that each of these writers turns that traditional limitation into a weapon of mockery of assault against masculine society.
Dickinson and the Strategies of Reticence
Title | Dickinson and the Strategies of Reticence PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Dobson |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 1989-09-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780253318091 |
Rejecting the view that interprets Emily Dickinson exclusively as a proto-modernist poet, Joanne Dobson finds Dickinson rooted in the expressive assumptions of her contemporary women writers. By looking at Dickinson in the context of these writers, Dobson uncovers the effects of common grounding in a cultural ethos of femininity that mandated personal reticence. Combining literary history and contemporary feminist literary theory, this study posits a complex interaction of personal preferences and editorial policies that resulted in a community of expression with impact on women's writing and literary careers.
The Development of Principles and Strategies for Treating and Preventing Reticence in High School Studenty [sic]. --
Title | The Development of Principles and Strategies for Treating and Preventing Reticence in High School Studenty [sic]. -- PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Joseph Farrell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | High school students |
ISBN |
Shelley’s Poetics of Reticence
Title | Shelley’s Poetics of Reticence PDF eBook |
Author | Merrilees Roberts |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2020-04-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000071375 |
Exploring the rhetorical and phenomenological links between shame and reticence, this book examines the psychology of Shelley’s anguished poet-Subject. Shelley’s struggles with the fragility of the ‘self’ have largely been seen as the result of thinking which connects emotional hyperstimulation to moral and political undermining of the individual ‘will’. This work takes a different approach, suggesting that Shelley’s insecurities stemmed from anxieties about the nature of aesthetic self-representation. Shame is an appropriate affective marker of such anxiety because it occurs at the cusp between internal and external self-evaluation. Shelley’s reticent poetics transfers an affective sense of shame to the reader and provokes interpretive responsibility. Paying attention to the affective contours of texts, this book presents new readings of Shelley’s major works. These interpretations show that awakening the reader’s ethical discretion creates a constructive dynamic which challenges influential deconstructive readings of the unfinished nature of Shelley’s work and thought.
Reticence and Anxiety in Oral English Lessons
Title | Reticence and Anxiety in Oral English Lessons PDF eBook |
Author | Meihua Liu |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9783039114979 |
This study explores the field of EFL (English as a foreign language) classroom learning within a formal learning institution. Drawing on theories and methods from various disciplines, this book explores the question which has been frustrating language teachers: why do so many students remain reticent and anxious in language class? Based on a large-scale survey and a more focused case study, the book argues persuasively that reticence and anxiety in formal EFL classrooms are important factors in determining the outcome of language learning. By means of a triangulated research method, this book examines various aspects of reticence and anxiety in EFL classroom learning situations. The author analyses causes and consequences, differences in terms of gender and proficiency level, and coping strategies.
Little Songs
Title | Little Songs PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Christine Billone |
Publisher | Ohio State University Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0814210422 |
Silence, gender, and the sonnet revival -- Breaking "the silent Sabbath of the grave" : romantic women's sonnets and the "mute arbitress" of grief -- "In silence like to death" : Elizabeth Barrett's sonnet turn -- Sing again : Christina Rossetti and the music of silence -- "Silence, 'tis more cruel than the grave!" : Isabella Southern and the turn to the twentieth century -- Women's renunciation of the sonnet form.
The Repeal of Reticence
Title | The Repeal of Reticence PDF eBook |
Author | Rochelle Gurstein |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 507 |
Release | 2016-01-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 146689542X |
At a time when America's faculties of taste and judgment—along with the sense of the sacred and shameful—have become utterly vacant, Rochelle Gurstein's The Repeal of Reticence delivers an important and troubling warning. Covering landmark developments in America's modern culture and law, she charts the demise of what was dismissively called "gentility" in the face of First Amendment triumphs for journalists, sex educators, and novelists—from Margaret Sanger's advocacy of birth control to Judge Woolsey's celebrated defense of Ulysses. Weaving together a study of the legal debates over obscenity and free speech with a cultural study of the critics and writers who framed the issues, Gurstein offers a trenchant reconsideration of the sacred value of privacy.