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Informationen zum Autor Ellen Rooney is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Brown University, Rhode Island. Klappentext This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts! while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. Each essay suggests reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field! and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism! literary criticism and literature. Zusammenfassung This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field! and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism! literary criticism and literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Ellen Rooney; Part I. Problematics Emerge: 1. On canons: anxious history and the rise of black feminist literary studies Ann duCille; 2. Pleasure, resistance, and a feminist aesthetics of reading Geraldine Heng; 3. The literary politics of feminist theory Ellen Rooney; Part II. In Feminism's Wake: Genre, Period, Form: 4. What feminism did to novel studies Nancy Armstrong; 5. Autobiography and the feminist subject Linda Anderson; 6. Modernisms and feminisms Katherine Mullin; 7. French feminisms' écriture féminine Kari Weil; 8. Feminism and popular culture Nickianne Moody; Part III. Feminist Theories in Play: 9. Poststructuralism: theory as critical self-consciousness Rey Chow; 10. On common ground: feminist theory and critical race studies Rashmi Varma; 11. Feminists theorize colonial/postcolonial Rosemary Marangoly George; 12. Feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism Elizabeth Weed; 13. Queer politics, queer theory, and the future of identity: spiralling out of culture Berthold Schoene....
