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Disruptive Women of Literature
Disruptive Women of Literature: Rooting for the Antiheroine critically examines the representation of the literary antiheroine in contemporary Gothic and crime-thriller novels and traces her emergence from the deviant women of Greek mythology and Shakespeare to the twenty-first century. It explores how the antiheroine shifts dependent on genre, time period, and format, demonstrating that she is capable of both challenging and reaffirming problematic ideologies surrounding women, power, violence, sexuality, and motherhood. Eleanore Gardner argues that the antiheroine is almost always defined by her experience of a patriarchal trauma and must therefore navigate her identity differently and more complexly than her antihero counterpart. The author examines a broad range of texts to understand the antiheroine's fluidity, her liminal and abject existence, and what these suggest about cultural anxieties surrounding transgressive women.
Writing, Retelling, and Critically Reading Children's and Young Adult Tales
This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children's and young adult tales over decades of cultural, social, and technological changes. Global contributions cover the increasingly diverse narratives found in children's literature, including how contemporary authors challenge traditional gender roles found in fairy tales through modern increasingly prevalent retellings. Chapters also consider the psychological impact of storytelling on children and how narratives can provide children with frameworks for understanding their emotions and experiences.
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The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania
"Readers will find this 1978 revised edition greatly expanded from my first edition of 1970. Not only have previous families expanded, but many more branches of the family have surfaced with the research work of other family members who wished to have their findings included in this issue. The basic plan of the earlier book--to take the reader on my own genealogical journey--has not been changed. However, new material has been discovered which affords us with more knowledge about Abraham Ziegler and his Harmony followers. A section on the Zieglers for 500 years in Europe--before Michael's journey in 1709 to America has been translated from the German with the help of Dr. Carl J. Schindler of Zelienople. With the world becoming smaller, and traveling abroad becoming more common, this section may inspire members of the family of present and future generations to find the viable link between Europe and America in the Ziegler family."--from the introduction.
