Making a Difference - Feminist Literary Criticism

Zusatztext `This survey of the present state of feminist literary criticism defines the current options and opens up many possibilities for debate and practice in teaching and research ... this is a rich and encouraging book in its informative overview from several perspectives and in its suggestiveness of where we can go on from here.' - Women's Review`Elegant and accomplished.' - New Statesman Informationen zum Autor Gayle Greene is Associate Professor English at Scripps College, Claremont, Ca. Coppelia Kahn is Professor of English at Brown University, Providence, RI. The other contributors are Nelly Furman, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Ann Rosalind Jones, Cora Kaplan, Sydney Janet Kaplan, Adrienne Munich, Susan Willis and Bonnie Zimmerman. Zusammenfassung An invaluable overview of feminist critical thinking. The essays address a wide range of topics including: the politics of language; feminist readings of the canon; psychoanalysis and feminism; French theories of the feminine. Inhaltsverzeichnis General editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- i Feminist scholarship and the social construction of woman /Gayle Greene and Coppelia Kahn -- 2 Varieties of feminist criticism /Sydney Janet Kaplan -- 3 The politics of language: beyond the gender principle? /Nelly Furman -- 4 Inscribing femininity: French theories of the feminine /Ann Rosalind Jones -- 5 Mind mother: psychoanalysis and feminism /Judith Kegan Gardiner -- 6 Pandora's box: subjectivity, class and sexuality in socialist feminist criticism /Cora Kaplan -- 7 What has never been: an overview of lesbian feminist criticism /Bonnie Zimmerman -- 8 Black women writers: taking a critical perspective /Susan Willis -- 9 Notorious signs, feminist criticism and literary tradition /Adrienne Munich -- Index.

Product details

• Authors: Gayle Kahn Green, Coppelia (Brown University Kahn, Coppelia Green Kahn
• Assisted by: Gayle Green (Editor), Green Gayle (Editor), Gayle Greene (Editor), Coppelia Kahn (Editor), Coppélia Kahn (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2016
• EAN: 9781138151949
• ISBN: 978-1-138-15194-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: New Accents; New Accents
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary theory, Feminism and feminist theory, FICTION / Feminist