Words Like Daggers
Title | Words Like Daggers PDF eBook |
Author | Kirilka Stavreva |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0803254881 |
Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority, simultaneously highlight, in contending narrative lines, their effective manipulation and even subversion of social and gender hierarchies. Words Like Daggers explores the scolding invectives, malevolent curses, and ecstatic prophesies of early modern women as attested in legal documents, letters, self-narratives, popular pamphlets, ballads, and dramas of the era. By examining the framing and performance of such violent female speech between the 1590s and the 1660s, Kirilka Stavreva dismantles the myth of the silent and obedient women who allegedly populated early modern England. Blending gender theory with detailed historical analysis, Words Like Daggers highlights the capacity of women's language to shape gender and social relationships in the early modern era. Stavreva not only reconstructs the speech acts of individual contentious women but also examines the powerful performative potential of women's violent speech, revealing how the stage, arguably the most influential cultural institution of the Renaissance, orchestrated and aestheticized women's fighting words and, in so doing, showcased and augmented their cultural significance.
Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin
Title | Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin PDF eBook |
Author | Kobi Peled |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2022-06-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004501827 |
The book explores the political poetry recited by the Negev Bedouin from the late Ottoman period to the late twentieth century. By closely reading fifty poems Kobi Peled sheds light on the poets’ sentiments, states of mind and worldviews.
The Edinburgh Review
Title | The Edinburgh Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
A New and Complete Concordance Or Verbal Index to Words, Phrases, & Passages in the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare with a Supplementary Concordance to the Poems
Title | A New and Complete Concordance Or Verbal Index to Words, Phrases, & Passages in the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare with a Supplementary Concordance to the Poems PDF eBook |
Author | John Bartlett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1930 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Dictionary of Similes
Title | A Dictionary of Similes PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Jenners Wilstach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
Hamlet
Title | Hamlet PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Words Like Daggers
Title | Words Like Daggers PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Marchant |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2013-05-31 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781489575869 |
Rachel Marchant, your average single mother, turns to the medical community for support while healing from Cancer. When she realizes that she is virtually invisible, no doubt a superpower side effect of Nuclear medicine, it becomes apparent that she and other patients like her are victims of vivisection and radiation poising. A mild mannered secretary by day, a mad researching scientist by night, Rachel accepts her life's Double Entendre. Driven by compassion and a vow to expose the truth behind the Cancer Industry, Rachel presents years of scientific data to various medical disciplines only to discover that the corruption has metastasized to all areas of medicine. She is accused of heresy and “Black Listed” by WHO-knows-who? In an attempt to advocate for Cancer Survivors, Rachel is left with only one choice - her voice. She becomes a Literal Assassin…