Feminist Linguistics in Literary Criticism

Essays employing close scrutiny of texts to clarify gender issues in feminist literary criticism.

List of contents

Introduction: Feminist Linguistics in Literary Criticism - Katie Wales
In Defence of Celia: Discourse Analysis and Women's Discourse in As You Like It - Clara Calvo
Language in Common: Apposition in Contemporary Poetry by Women - Lesley Jeffries
Gendered Writing and the Writer's Stylistic Identity - Marion Lomax
And Then He Kissed Her: The Reclamation of Female Characters to Submissive Roles in Contemporary Fiction - Shan Wareing
Close Encounters of a Feminist Kind: Transitivity Analysis and Pop Lyrics - Sara Mills
From Queens to Convicts: Status, Sex and Language in Contemporary British Women's Drama - Anne Varty
Women, Men and Words: Lexical Choices in Two Fairy Tales of the 1920s - Louise Sylvester

Product details

• Authors: Katie Wales
• Assisted by: Katie Wales (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.1994
• EAN: 9780859914116
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-411-6
• No. of pages: 175
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 225 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 349 g
• Series: Essays and Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies