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Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender

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Livia examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating on those texts which problematize the traditional functioning of the linguistic gender system. They range from novels and prose poems to film scripts and personal testimonies, and in time from the 19th century to the present. Some withhold any indication of gender; others have non-gendered characters. Livia's goal is two-fold; to help bridge the divide between linguistic and literary analysis, and to show how careful study of the ...

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Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender 2000, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195138535

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Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender 2000, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195138528

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