...Thaïs Miller Abstract The influx of digital streaming platforms from 2005 to 2008 enabled more nuanced representations of Jewish cultures, rituals, and subjects than on traditional distribution platforms. In front of and behind the camera, Jewish women, once marginalized, are now taking center...

... on the figure of the older lay reader and their reading practices. It presents field work involving a 2017 reading and writing club of women over sixty who responded to the novella Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill (2006) by the Flemish author Dimitri Verhulst. Analyzing the reading diaries, group discussion...

...Elizabeth Long Reading groups provide a fruitful site for examining women's uses of literature in life, since discussing books with other women gives rise to insights that come with sharing perspectives on both literature and participants' lives. This research focuses on white women's reading...

... in the 1960s, the changing book market and a changing attitude toward translation, and the growing impact of the modernist cohort on national literary criticism and production. Woolf's oeuvre appears to have figured in two increasingly separable repertoires, one shared by a circle of women writing...

... of a Nazi victory before Britain's entry into World War II. It prefigures many concerns of queer studies in its disturbing depictions of homoerotic love among Nazi soldiers and women reduced to mindlessly reproductive bodies. Focusing on the significance of the women in her narrative, the article argues...

...Els Andringa The aim of this study is to investigate how reading experiences intertwine fiction and life and how such experiences change over time. Twelve reading autobiographies of young, motivated readers (age range twenty-two to thirty-two; six men, six women) were analyzed using qualitative...

... and women. Such a view of literature's role in the coevolution of human nature and cultures helps explain its worldwide presence and perhaps even some of its shared characteristics across cultural divides. Three features respectively associated with the cognitive, emotive, and volitional dimensions...

...Suzanne Keen Pursuing my earlier theory of strategic narrative empathy, this essay shows Thomas Hardy's bounded strategic empathy for his fictional creations, Wessex countrymen and women; his ambassadorial strategic empathy for animals and select members of despised outgroups; and his broadcast...

...Katherine Kruger Abstract Changes to working life and retirement are reshaping temporalities of aging. This essay identifies a growing interest by women writers in the narrative possibilities these changes present. Examining the relation between narrative form, aging, and precarious work in Deborah...

... features intersect with issues of power. This essay shows that one particular feature of form—terminal rhyme—has had a peculiar and troubling closeness to strains of critical misogyny: on the one hand, rhyme is sometimes deemed “unmanly” or unserious, yet there is also a history of maligning women poets...

... , translated by Maria Jolas (Boston: Beacon). Baer, Elizabeth, and Myrna Goldenberg, eds. 2003 Experience and Expression: Women, Nazis, and the Holocaust (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press). Baer, Ulrich 2000 “To Give Memory a Place: Holocaust Photography and the Landscape Tradition...

... wrapped up in the exercise of grief” (67). Nonetheless, it remains unclear why the shift occurred then and not after the Civil War when the loss of life was far more extensive and much closer to home. Third, the particular vulnerability of women to social constructions of age, according to Dawson, helps...

... is professor of English, comparative literature, and women and gen- der studies at Columbia University. Her recent publications include Family Frames Pho- tography, Narrative, and Postmemory (1997), The Familial Gaze (1999), Time and the Literary (2002), a special issue of Signs (vol. 28, no. 1 [2002...

...? ” Women’s History Review , February 16 : 1 – 22 . Hawksley Lucinda 2013 The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Rebellious Daughter ( London : Vintage Books ). Heilmann Ann Llewellyn Mark 2004 “ Hystorical Fictions: Women (Re)writing and (Re...

... can still relish the improve- ment in the view: “Contextually this is to the good; we have become fully aware of popular and social thought, including the hidden or neglected contribution of women. Yet the place of literature has shrunk to only a minor part of a much larger picture, while...

... to Wentworth when he says that he dislikes having women aboard a naval ship, criticizing him for “talking as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures” (75). Her assertion as well as her assertiveness matters: in her rejection of Wentworth's regressive ideas about women, Austen's readers...

... Fiction ‘Sisters’: Stieg Larsson’s Hero in a Genre Context .” In King and Smith 2012 : 135 – 44 . Brown Jeffrey A. 2011 . Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi . Clover Carol . 1992 . Men, Women...

... “The Shares of Fletcher and His Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (VI),” Studies in Bibliography 14 : 45 – 67 . Jardine Lisa 1983 Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare ( Brighton, UK : Harvester ). Kyd Thomas 1989 (1592...

... name or voice. There was a significant difference between women and men for all of the eight variables (four concerning mode of identification, four concern- ing reading in the service of coping with life). Women reach a lower aver- Charlton et al. • Different Ways of Reading a Novel Which Make...