ISBN:
9780203120569
,
1283605244
,
9780415521666
,
9781283605243
,
9781136322020
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 371 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version New Feminist Discourses RLE : Critical Essays on Theories and Texts
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Sex role in literature
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Feminism and literature
;
Women and literature
;
English literature History and criticism
;
Theory, etc
;
English literature Women authors
;
History and criticism
;
Feminist criticism
;
English literature ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc
;
English literature ; Women authors ; History and criticism
;
Feminism and literature ; Great Britain
;
Feminist criticism ; Great Britain
;
Sex role in literature
;
Women and literature ; Great Britain
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered knowledge and the implications of accounts of gendered language, cultural restraints on the representation of sexuality, women's agency, cultural and political change, a feminist aesthetics and new readings of race and class. The essays utilise and question the disciplines of literary criticism, ar
Description / Table of Contents:
NEW FEMINIST DISCOURSES Critical Essays on Theories and Texts; Copyright; NEW FEMINIST DISCOURSES Critical Essays on Theories and Texts; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Knowledges; Chapter 2 Feminist aesthetics and the new realism; Chapter 3 Walking, women and writing: Virginia Woolf as flâneuse; Chapter 4 Happy families? Feminist reproduction and matrilineal thought; Chapter 5 An other space: a future for feminism?; Part II Subjectivities; Chapter 6 Releasing possibility into form: cultural choice and the woman writer
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7 Fakes and femininity: Vita Sackville-West and her motherChapter 8 The dangers of Angela Carter; Part III Languages; Chapter 9 Love, mourning and metaphor: terms of identity; Chapter 10 Why the Lady's eyes are nothing like the sun; Chapter 11 Unsilent instruments and the devil's cushions: authority in seventeenth-century women's prophetic discourse; Part IV Representations; Chapter 12 Getting down to basics: art, obscenity and the female nude; Chapter 13 Do or die: problems of agency and gender in the aesthetics of murder
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 14 The politics of focus: feminism and photography theoryChapter 15 The hand of the huntress: repetition and Malory's Morte Darthur; Part V Others; Chapter 16 New hystericism: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: the body, the text and the feminist critic; Chapter 17 The great distinction: figures of the exotic in the work of William Hodges; Chapter 18 'Because men made the laws': the fallen woman and the woman poet; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Available via World Wide Web
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