A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism

A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism

Author: Maggie Humm

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1317341759

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This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates within each approach. Each chapter has an easy-to-use format, comprising an introductory overview, an explanation of key themes and techniques, a detailed account of the work of specific critics, and a summary which includes critiques of the approach. Each chapter is accompanied by a guide to the primary texts and further reading.


A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

Author: Raman Selden

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.


A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

Author: Raman Selden

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1993-06-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780813108162

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Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.


A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism

A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism

Author: Maggie Humm

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1317341740

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This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates within each approach. Each chapter has an easy-to-use format, comprising an introductory overview, an explanation of key themes and techniques, a detailed account of the work of specific critics, and a summary which includes critiques of the approach. Each chapter is accompanied by a guide to the primary texts and further reading.


A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism

Author: Maggie Humm

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9780745009254

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Poststructuralism. Deconstruction. Gayatri Spivak. Postmodernism. Alice Jardine. Meaghan Morris. Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- 7. Black feminisms: the African diaspora. Afra-American feminist criticism. Barbara Smith. Audre Lorde. Alice Walker. Barbara Christian. Summary: Afra-American. African feminist criticism. Molara Ogundipe-Leslie. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Lauretta Ngcobo. Caribbean feminist criticism -- 8. Lesbian feminist criticism. Essentialism and construction. Modernism. Bonnie Zimmerman. Queer theory and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Jane Rule. Catharine Stimpson. Mary Daly. Adrienne Rich. Problematising of heterosexuality -- 9. Third World feminist criticism: third wave and fifth gear. Areas. Techniques. Chandra Talpade Mohanty and colonial discourse. Rosario Castellanos. Gloria Anzaldua. Rey Chow -- 10. Feminist futures.


Feminisms

Feminisms

Author: Maggie Humm

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 1317867165

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This major textbook for women's studies provides an excellent and wide-ranging introduction to feminist ideas and perspectives on issues such as the family, sexuality, work, education, patriarchy, race, language, culture and representation. It brings together over seventy key excerpts.


Critical Theory Today

Critical Theory Today

Author: Lois Tyson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-09-10

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1136615563

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Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.


A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

Author: Gill Plain

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-08-30

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1139465821

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Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the Middle Ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards, and analyses the work of pioneers such as Wollstonecraft and Woolf. The second section examines the rise of second-wave feminism and maps its interventions across the twentieth century. A final section examines the impact of postmodernism on feminist thought and practice. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the history and development of feminist literary criticism and a lively reassessment of the main issues and authors in the field. It is essential reading for all students and scholars of feminist writing and literary criticism.