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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again (edizione 2023)di Joanna Biggs (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. My favorite blend of memoir along with group biography, and the author does an interesting job focusing on specific women writers and how they’ve affected her. ( ) Writer Joanna Biggs seeks solace and advice from her 9 writing heroines in these fine essays about their lives and work. Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Zora Neil Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante (the first 8 are my own female literary friends also, I may come to Ferrante, but I didn't get far into My Brilliant Friend, probably because I am not much of a 'coming of age' story person. I too have been reading these writers most of my life, and regularly revisit them. In this volume Biggs is looking for a way forward after her divorce, and her revisiting these writers gives her ideas for framing how she can move forward, shape and form new ways of being. In her exploration she finds new things in her later readings of the works. I certainly wanted to revisit again with these writers, and dived again into Virginia's To the Lighthouse, probably my 6th reading. I shall certainly be revisiting these essays again. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
I took off my wedding ring for the last time--a gold band with half a line of "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath etched inside--and for weeks afterwards, my thumb would involuntarily reach across my palm for the warm bright circle that had gone. I didn't fling the ring into the long grass, like women do in the movies, but a feeling began bubbling up nevertheless, from my stomach to my throat: it could fling my arms out. I was free ... A few years into her marriage and feeling societal pressure to surrender to domesticity, Joanna Biggs found herself longing for a different kind of existence. Was this all there was? She divorced without knowing what would come next. Newly untethered, Joanna returned to the free-spirited writers of her youth and was soon reading in a fever--desperately searching for evidence of lives that looked more like her own, for the messiness and freedom, for a possible blueprint for intellectual fulfillment. In A Life of One's Own, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, and Elena Ferrante are all taken down from their pedestals, their work and lives seen in a new light. Joanna wanted to learn more about the conditions these women needed to write their best work, and how they addressed the questions she herself was struggling with: Is domesticity a trap? Is life worth living if you have lost faith in the traditional goals of a woman? Why is it so important for women to read one another? This is a radical and intimate examination of the unconventional paths these women took--their pursuits and achievements but also their disappointments and hardships. And in exploring the things that gave their lives the most meaning, we find fuel for our own singular intellectual paths. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)809.89287Literature modified standard subdivisions History, description and criticism of more than two literatures By or for groups of persons Cultural theory of the literature of social groups Literature of womenClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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