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Naming the Father
Bueno, Eva Paulino; Caesar, Terry; Hummel, William
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Description for Naming the Father
Paperback. This is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, and unsettling provocations. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
Naming the Father is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, its unsettling provocations. Despite the considerable critical attention devoted to motherhood in literature-and despite the late-twentieth-century focus on patriarchy-there is surprisingly no comparable collection on fatherhood. This volume was born of the conclusion that critics of modern and contemporary literature may comprehend the father too little for presuming to have comprehended patriarchy so much. Naming the Father begins with a series of nonfiction essays that attempts to locate the missing father in the individual experiences of three scholars at various stages ... Read more
Naming the Father is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, its unsettling provocations. Despite the considerable critical attention devoted to motherhood in literature-and despite the late-twentieth-century focus on patriarchy-there is surprisingly no comparable collection on fatherhood. This volume was born of the conclusion that critics of modern and contemporary literature may comprehend the father too little for presuming to have comprehended patriarchy so much. Naming the Father begins with a series of nonfiction essays that attempts to locate the missing father in the individual experiences of three scholars at various stages ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739100929
SKU
V9780739100929
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About Bueno, Eva Paulino; Caesar, Terry; Hummel, William
Eva Paulino Bueno is professor of literature at Mukogawa Women's University in Japan. Terry Caesar is senior professor of American literature at Mukogawa Women's University. William Hummel received his Ph.D. in American Literature from Arizona State University in 1999.
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