Feminine Life Tide: A Study of Women's Essays in the 1990s

Author: Liu Siqian, Guo Li, Yang Jun
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Why did women's essays reach a climax in the 1990s? What is the intrinsic connection between women's essays in the 1990s and modern women's essays since the May Fourth Movement? To what extent do women's essays reveal the surging vitality of women's lives and the growth of their subjective spirit? On what basis should women's essays research be established to ensure its effectiveness and rationality? This book aims to answer the above questions through the analysis of a large number of women's essays, thereby exploring the practical significance of women's essays for women's self-construction. The Passage of Time examines the synchronic cross-sectional structure of women's essays by female authors of different ages in the 1990s, introducing the concept of "generation" into the field of women's essays for the first time. It discovers how women in time, in specific and different or similar historical circumstances, grasp, create, and bear the meaning of life, and how they achieve the value of this once-in-a-lifetime life through self-identity and mutual identity, survival, and transcendence. It provides a new theoretical framework for women's essays research. Women's Thoughts begins with the reflections and discussions of women's essays on a series of issues such as history, culture, love, marriage, life and death, and reflects on the attention and elevation of women as thinking subjects to women's experiences. It highlights the breadth and depth of the spiritual exploration achieved by women's essays in the 1990s. The Homeland of Language breaks away from the single-formal study of women's essays and emphasizes the relationship between women as discourse subjects and their discourse and thinking methods, introducing "intellectual thinking" to summarize the thinking methods of women's essays. It serves as an effective entry point for researching the genre of women's essays. This book breaks the pattern of interpreting texts with theoretical annotations. Starting from the void in essay theory, it discovers the growth points of theory within the texts, reflecting the new trends in literary research.