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Author: Deborah L. Madsen
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2000-08-20
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780745316017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible account of the varieties of feminist thought within the context of the key American texts including Kate Chopin, Alice Walker and Ann Beattie.
Author: Robyn R. Warhol
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1238
ISBN-13: 9780813523897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Everything you might want to know about the history and practice of feminist criticism in North America". -Feminist Bookstore News
Author: Lauren Fournier
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2021-02-23
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0262362589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutotheory--the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography--as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism. In the 2010s, the term "autotheory" began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, applying it to other disciplines and practices. Fournier provides a long-awaited account of autotheory, situating it as a mode of contemporary, post-1960s artistic practice that is indebted to feminist writing, art, and activism. Investigating a series of works by writers and artists including Chris Kraus and Adrian Piper, she considers the politics, aesthetics, and ethics of autotheory.
Author: Gill Plain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-08-30
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1139465821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeminism 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.
Author: Deborah Rosenfelt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-20
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1136204490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a ‘materialist-feminist’ criticism of literature and culture. Such a criticism is based on the view that the material conditions in which men and women live are central to an understanding of culture and society. It emphasises the relation of gender to other categories of analysis, such as class and race, and considers the connection between ideology and cultural practice, and the ways in which all relations of power change with changing social and economic conditions. By presenting a wide range of work by major feminist scholars, this anthology in effect defines as well as illustrates the materialist-feminist tendency in current literary criticism. The essays in the first part of the book examine race, ideology, and the literary canon and explore the ways in which other critical discourse, such as those of deconstruction and French feminism, might be useful to a feminist and materialist criticism. The second part of the book contains examples of such criticism in practice, with studies of individual works, writers and ideas. An introduction by the editors situates the collected essays in relation both to one another and to a shared materialist/feminist project. Feminist Criticism and Social Change demonstrates the important contribution of materialist-feminist criticism to our understanding of literature and society, and fulfils a crucial need among those concerned with gender and its relation to criticism.
Author: Gabriela Mora
Publisher: Ypsilanti, Mich. : Biligingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBreaking through established categories and time frames of literary history, this is trilingual collection of essays -- 12 English, 5 Spanish and 1 French. The essays are grouped in three categories: discussions of feminist literary theory, followed by its application to specific works by female and then by male writers.
Author: Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 073917682X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter uncovering the oppressive dichotomies of male/female and nature/culture that underlie contemporary environmental problems, Feminist Ecocriticism focuses specifically on emancipatory strategies employed by ecofeminist literary critics as antidotes, asking what our lives might be like as those strategies become increasingly successful in overcoming oppression. Thus, ecofeminism is not limited to the critique of literature, but also helps identify and articulate liberatory ideals that can be actualized in the real world, in the process transforming everyday life. Providing an alternative to rugged individualism, for example, ecofeminist literature promotes a more fulfilling sense of interrelationship with both community and the land. In the process of exploring literature from ecofeminist perspectives, the book reveals strategies of emancipation that have already begun to give rise to more hopeful ecological narratives.
Author: Mary Eagleton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-06
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1317900057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse. It also provides an overview of the developments in feminist literary theory, and covers all the major debates within literary feminism, including "male feminism".
Author: Mary Eagleton
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 1996-01-30
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780631197348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRadically revised and expanded from its original format, this second edition covers new material on Black feminisms, and the impact of post-modernism on feminism. It is the perfect introduction to feminist literary theory today.
Author: K. K. Ruthven
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-09-13
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780521398527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKK. K. Ruthven looks at the impact of Marxism, structuralism, and post-structuralism on feminist critical practice.
