Title:

A review of the book "Reading beyond the female: The relationship between perception of author gender and literary quality"

Creator:

Byszuk, Joanna

Publisher:

Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Kraków

Date issued/created:

2019

Subject and Keywords:

review ; gender studies ; discourse analysis ; stylometry ; literary studies

Abstract:

Presented text is a review of the book "Reading beyond the female: The relationship between perceptionof author gender and literary quality" by Dutch researcher Cornelia Koolen. Discussed book undertakesthe issues of relations between the gender of the author, evaluation of literary quality of their work andactual features of the texts, thus fitting in the larger trend of research on gender stereotypes in languageand literature. The innovative use of quantitative methods also grants it an important place within literatureon stylometric, making it an interdisciplinary work.

Relation:

Socjolingwistyka

Volume:

33

Start page:

283

End page:

287

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

PDF

Resource Identifier:

10.17651/SOCJOLING.33.18

Language:

eng

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Access:

Open