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David Beck

Women and Power in Fantastic Societies

Femininity and Power in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, and Anne Bishop’s The Black Jewels

POETICA – Schriften zur Literaturwissenschaft

Seit den 1990er Jahren hat sich die moderne Fantasy als eines der kommerziell erfolgreichsten Genres innerhalb der Popkultur etabliert. Autoren wie Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman und J. K. Rowling trugen maßgeblich dazu bei, die Fantasy dauerhaft im mainstream zu verankern. Peter Jacksons Filmadaption von J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings und, in…

Michaela Schmidt

Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

During a career that lasted for forty years, nineteenth-century American woman writer Rose Terry Cooke (1827 – 1892) published short stories, poems, and essays in such different magazines as prestigious literary monthlies, religious weeklies and childrens magazines. She was a multifaceted author, and yet only a small number of her works has been analyzed. Literary…

Julie Spergel

Canada‘s ‘Second History‘: The Fiction of Jewish Canadian Women Writers

Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

In Anne Michaels’s novel „Fugitive Pieces?, seven-year-old Shoah survivor Jakob Beer is reborn, given a „second history? when he emerges out of a Polish bog. As Jakob builds a new life with his adoptive father Athos, the Greek archaeologist who finds him, the two are consumed by a need to uncover the hidden, invisible worlds that lie beneath Greece and Toronto.…