Dear Friends, I’ve been reading Margaret Atwood’s poetry and essays on and off for some years now; a few years ago, I read her historical novel (Booker Prize type), Alias Grace, and now this past month, managed her remarkable women’s novel of girlhood and growing up, Cat’s Eye. I have no patience for science fiction or […]
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Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye in the context of her poetry, realistic & romance novels & Austen’s Emma
Posted in 20th century, blank, jane austen novels, women's art, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's poetry, tagged women's poetry on October 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale: out-harrowed by the mini-series (Episodes 1-3)
Posted in 20th century, adaptations, costume drama, feminism, film adaptation, heroines' texts, women's art, women's film, womens lives, tagged feminism, women's novels on May 4, 2017| 16 Comments »
Elizabeth Moss as Offred (Handmaid’s Tale, 2016, “created” by Bruce Miller, director Reed Morano Friends, It may be that nothing could be fundamentally further in mood (dystopian horror) and genre (fantasy gothic or science fiction) from a Jane Austen novel, or any of the film adaptations (except perhaps P&P and Zombies: The Violent Turn) than […]
Loving and Sly Parodies: the gothic and anti-gothic: Atwood’s Lady Oracle & Fuller’s The Convent
Posted in 18th century, 18th century films, blank, female archetypes, feminism, french writers, women's art, women's novels on September 13, 2010| 5 Comments »
….. from abbeys and castles, in which, though certainly larger than Northanger, all the dirty work of the house was to be done by two pair of female hands at the utmost. How they could get through it all had often amazed Mrs. Allen …. (NA, 2:8) Dear friends and readers, In the last week and […]
A winter syllabus 2023: The Heroine’s Journey at OLLI at Mason online
Posted in female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, landscapes, Northanger Abbey, syllabus, women artists, women's art, women's novels, women's poetry, women's rights, womens lives, tagged Ann Radcliffe, cats, Mystery-suspense movie, symbolic women, teaching, women artists, women's film, women's life-writing, women's novels, women's poetry on January 13, 2023| 3 Comments »
Catherine Morland (Felicity Jones) and Henry Tilney (J.J. Feilds) entering the realm of the ancient Abbey, crossing the bridge (2007 Granada/WBGH Northanger Abbey, scripted Andrew Davies) For a course at the Oscher LifeLong Learning Institute at George Mason University Day: 4 Thursdays midday, 11:50-1:15 pm online, F405Z: The Heroine’s Journey Office located at 4210 Roberts […]
Coming winter course finalized: The Heroine’s Journey
Posted in female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, Northanger Abbey, reading life, women's art, women's film, Women's historical romance, women's novels, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged symbolic women, teaching on August 16, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Early still of Clare turning away from vase in window, Inverness, Halloween, evening (Outlander S1Ep1) I’ll do it online from OLLI at George Mason: Our foundational books will be Maria Tatar’s, The Heroine with 1001 Faces, and Maureen Murdock’s The Heroine’s Journey. The class will read as a pair Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad and Liz Lochhead’s […]
Summer reading: Valerie Martin’s Italian Fever
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An enchanting ironic romance occurring in Tuscany This is the cover of the audio book Bernini’s Daphne and Apollo in the Galleria Borghese in Rome — to which our heroine, Lucy Stark, comes, is riveted by & comments on An enchanting ironic romance occurring in Tuscany Dear friends and readers, While I have for a […]
A summer syllabus: Retelling Traditional History & Myth from an Alternative POV
Posted in female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, women's art, women's memoirs, women's novels, womens lives, tagged diary, syllabus, teaching, World War II on May 30, 2022| 1 Comment »
Summer Syllabus For a course at the Oscher LifeLong Learning Institute at American University Tuesdays, 1:45 to 3:15 am, June 7 – June 28 4 sessions In person, 4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW, DC Dr Ellen Moody Description of Course: 1610: Retelling Traditional History & Tales from an Alternative POV We will read two books which […]
A Winter Syllabus: Retelling Traditional History & Tales from an Alternative Point of View (OLLI at Mason)
Posted in 20th century, feminism, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, landscapes, women's art, women's films, women's memoirs, women's novels, womens lives, tagged Cassandra, fascism, feminism, politics, syllabus, symbolic women, teaching, war, women's life-writing, women's novels on January 16, 2022| 1 Comment »
For a course at the Oscher LifeLong Learning Institute at George Mason University Days: Wednesday mornings, 9:40 to 11:05 am, Jan 26 to Feb 16 4 sessions online, zoom meeting style (location of building: 4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, Virginia) 22032 Dr Ellen Moody Description of Course: F407 is Retelling Traditional History & Tales from an […]
Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005): The Poetry of Colonial War, & a Mother’s point of view
Posted in 20th century, blank, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, politics, women artists, women's art, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged foremother poet, symbolic women, women artists, women's poetry on May 17, 2021| 5 Comments »
Dahlia Ravikovitch 1997 photograph (1936-2005) A tweet I read tonight on twitter: “Tonight I put the kids to sleep in our bedroom. So that when we die, we die together and no one would live to mourn the loss of one another” Eman Basher @sometimes Pooh.” This reminded me of what I was told of […]
Women writers whose books I’ve been reading or whose films I’ve been watching recently ….
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, Austen film, costume drama, female archetypes, feminism, film adaptation, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, jane austen criticism, jane austen films, tagged actresses, Anna Austen Lefroy, symbolic women, women's novels, women's poetry on October 14, 2019| 4 Comments »
Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) threatening Offred (Elisabeth Moss): why so repulsive and terrifying Sometimes (sadly) it seems Austen is the only writer among some of my favorites whom I’ve not gotten to. This fall I’ve been reading Margaret Atwood (oh yes again!), her Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, a supposed and part-sequel to the Handmaid’s […]
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