The romanticized image of the heroic male resistance fighter in World War II belies a truth that is both darker and more personal. This literary history explores, for the first time, the reality of European women’s roles in fighting Nazism. By comparing the resistance literature of French and German authors—both famous and more obscure—this innovative book links the traditional gender expectations for women and the conventions of their everyday lives with their unique forms of resistance. Theirs was an opposition grounded in the ordinary, beyond the sphere of political violence. Women were long regarded as outsiders to combat and politics, with no stake in upholding resistance myths. Women authors therefore freely rendered the personal and moral landscape of the resister’s world in a new vocabulary. They revised standard rhetoric and replaced heroism and bullets with the values of home, human relationships, and candid acknowledgement of the sorrow, fear, and uncertainty of war. A groundbreaking study for students of European history, women’s studies, peace studies, or comparative literature, this volume is also accessible to a general audience interested in the role of women in World War II.
Orphaned at an early age, and now caring for his uncle's sheep, a young shepherd named Jacob felt a deep loneliness in his heart. Dutiful and caring, however, he searches one night for his two lost sheep. He later returns to learn from his jubilant cousin, Aram, that while he was gone, angels had proclaimed a wondrous birth and shepherds rejoiced that they had witnessed the newborn Messiah! Having missed such a wonder, the young shepherd is disconsolate and filled with heartache. Aram then urges Jacob to come with him to the stable, still hoping to see the baby. What will Jacob discover? And, how can it transform his life?
Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
There are no walls built around her, no defenses. What you read is a glimpse into the heart and soul of a poet, the struggles, the successes and failures, the joys and sadness, the love and the frustration, the sorrows and hurt. What you read is her search for herself. What you read is pure feeling, open, honest, naked.
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