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Embodying Beauty

Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' Aesthetics

Embodying Beauty( )
Author: Pereira, Malin
Series title:Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Ser.
ISBN:978-1-315-05428-5
Publication Date:Jan 2014
Publisher:Routledge
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:USD $56.95USD $180.00USD $180.00
Book Description:

This study argues that twentieth-century American women writers' textual representations of female beauty generally recognize a link between beauty standards and aesthetic ideology, exploring female beauty as a symptom of prevailing ideas about art and esthetics. Female beauty, in their texts, is not merely an issue of whether a female character is pretty or not; it is an expression of the controlling discourses negotiated by character, text, and author. In this study, therefore, the...
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