Sandra Gilbert

Sandra Gilbert
University of California, Davis | UCD · Department of English

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translate: 1. To express in another language, systematically retaining the original sense. 2. To put in simpler terms; explain. 3. To convey from one form or style to another; convert. 4. To transfer (a bishop) to another see. 5. To forward or retransmit (a telegraphic message). 6. Theology. To convey to heaven without natural death. 7. Physics. To...
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This chapter contains section titled: I: Dickinson in the KitchenII: The White Heat Casts Its Shadows I: Dickinson in the Kitchen II: The White Heat Casts Its Shadows
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As any theorist of autobiography knows—and indeed as any halfway introspective memoirist is at least partly aware—even the most apparently artless memoirs have plots and subplots, just as plays and novels do. Not surprisingly, therefore, in The Year of Magical Thinking, the consummate stylist Joan Didion has produced a memoir whose plot is intricat...
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In 1997 I was asked to organize humanities outreach activities at the University of California, Irvine. The result was the formation of Humanities Out There (HOT). In our workshops, faculty members and graduate students supervise teams of undergraduates in order to take the methods and materials of the university into the larger community. I believ...
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New Literary History 30.1 (1999) 179-201 Wilfred Owen, letter of August 8, 1917 (written from Craiglockhart, mental hospital for shell shock victims) He does not become a three-days personage, Imposing his separation, Calling for pomp. Death is absolute and without memorial, As in a season of autumn, When the wind stops, When the wind stops and, ov...
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on the one hand, and from Woolf to Irigaray to Cixous on the other, masculinist and feminist theorists alike have toyed with the idea of a culturally determined body language which translates the articulations of the body into that body of articulated terminology we call language. Lately, in particular, linguistically-minded critics have increasing...
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“Dickinson in the Kitchen”—a tasty take on Dickinson as cook and poet.
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A partir del análisis de la obra de siete grandes escritoras de habla inglesa del siglo XIX, se reconstruyen las condiciones socio-culturales en que crearon (una parte de la historia de las mujeres de ese siglo) y los rasgos que, de alguna forma, constituye la poética de cada una de ellas. Rasgos que, como ponen de manifiesto las autoras del texto,...