Creation Publishing And Criticism The Advance Of Womens Writing

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Since the 1980's, there has been an unprecedented and unremitting rise in the number of women writers in Galicia and Ireland. Publishers, critics, journals, and women's groups have played a decisive role in this phenomenon. Creation, Publishing, and Criticism provides a plurality of perspectives on the strategies deployed by the various cultural agents in the face of the advance of women authors and brings together a selection of articles by writers, publishers, critics, and theatre professionals who delve into their experiences during this process of cultural change. This collection of essays sets out to show how, departing from comparable circumstances, the Galician and the Irish literary systems explore their respective new paths in ways that are pertinent to each other. This book will be of particular interest to students of Galician and Irish studies, comparative literature, women's studies, and literary criticism. Both specialists in cultural analysis and the common reader will find this an enlightening book. Laura Lojo is Associate Professor of English literature and language at the University of Santiago de Compostela and has a Ph. D. in VirginiaWoolf's writing. Lojo is the author of Introduction to Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction (2003), and is co-editor of Writing Bonds: Irish and Galician Contemporary Women Poets (2009). She has also published book chapters and articles in literary journals on various topics, such as the reception of British modernism in Spanish-speaking countries, Irish women's poetry, women's studies, and comparative literature. Manuela Palacios is Associate Professor of English at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where she obtained her Ph. D. in Modernist literature and the visual arts. She has directed two research projects on contemporary Irish and Galician women writers that have been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and she has co-edited two books on this topic: Palabras extremes (2008) and Writing Bonds (2009). Her other publications include translations of European poetry and narrative, monographs on Virginia Woolf's pictorial imagery, Shakespeare's Richard ill, and articles on ecocriticism. --Book Jacket.