Patricia Smith Yaeger

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Literature

#5748

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#8782

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Literary Criticism

#236

World Rank

#351

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According to Wikipedia, Patricia Smith Yaeger was an American academic and literary critic. Biography Yaeger studied at Bryn Mawr College, receiving her BA in 1972. She took a Ph. D. at Yale University in 1980. She began her teaching career with posts at Williams College, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University before becoming an associate professor at the University of Michigan in 1990. She was promoted to professor in 1999 and named the Henry Simmons Frieze Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies in 2005. At the time of her death from ovarian cancer, she was researching the concept of the "female sublime". Yaeger died at her home. She was survived by her husband and two children. Yaeger received the Faculty Recognition Award from the University of Michigan in 2001.

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Patricia Smith Yaeger's Published Works

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Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990 (2001) (103)
Romanticism and feminism (1991) (80)
The geography of identity (1996) (75)
Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women's Writing (1988) (57)
Refiguring the Father New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy (1989) (31)
Testimony without Intimacy (2006) (29)
"A Language Which Nobody Understood": Emancipatory Strategies in "The Awakening" (1987) (28)
Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment (2017) (21)
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology (2013) (18)
Ghosts and Shattered Bodies, or What Does it Mean To Still Be Haunted by Southern Literature? (2005) (11)
Writing as Action: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2011) (11)
The Case of the Dangling Signifier: Phallic Imagery in Eudora Welty's "Moon Lake" (1982) (7)
Violence in the Sitting Room : Wuthering Heights and the Woman's Novel (1988) (6)
Honey-Mad Women: Charlotte Brontë's Bilingual Heroines (1986) (5)
Race and the Cloud of Unknowing in Gone with the Wind (1999) (5)
Pre-Postmodernism: Academic Feminism and the Kitchen Sink (1994) (3)
Dematerializing Culture: Faulkner’s Trash Aesthetic (2012) (2)
Southern Orientalism: Flannery O'Connor's Cosmopolis (2003) (1)
Emancipatory Discourse@@@Mikhail Bakhtin@@@Revolution in Poetic Language@@@Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle (1986) (0)
Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine by Verena Conley (review) (2016) (0)
On the prize essay (2011) (0)
Transforming Postcolonial Theory to revive Postcolonization (2015) (0)
and the Anguish of Writing (2016) (0)
Polysemy and Playfulness@@@Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women's Writing (1989) (0)
Shattering Women’s Images and Rewriting Women’s Self in Novas cartas portuguesas (2010) (0)
Beyond the Fragments@@@Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (1990) (0)
Coleridge, Derrida, and the Anguish of Writing (1983) (0)
Contributors (2002) (0)
Maria Holmgren: In the First Person and in the House: The House Chronotope in Four Works by American Women Writers (2000) (0)
Books Received (1995) (0)

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