[PDF] The New Feminist Literary Studies eBook

Author : Jennifer Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108673856

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The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section, 'Fields', specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist feminism. Finally, the third section, 'Forms', is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism.

Author : Jennifer Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108471935

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Presents essays by feminists of theory and literature that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today.

Author : K. K. Ruthven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 1990-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521398527

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K. K. Ruthven looks at the impact of Marxism, structuralism, and post-structuralism on feminist critical practice.

Author : Gill Plain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 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.

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : New York : Pantheon
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780394539133

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"The New Feminist Criticism" brings together for the first time the most influential and controversial essays on the feminist approach to literature. These groundbreaking essays by well-known critics offer a much-needed overview of feminist critical theory, and illustrate its practice. In "The New Feminist Criticism" the authors take up a variety of topics. They challenge received notions of literary tradition and shows how women's writing has been systematically excluded, misread, and misinterpreted. They address the relationship of women's writing to ethnicity, separatism, and feminism itself. And they ask how it differs from that of men, with regard to recurrent images, symbols, themes, and plots. Complete with a bibliography of feminist literary theory, "The New Feminist Criticism" is an indispensable introduction to one of the most important intellectual movements of recent times. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Ellen Rooney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826638

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Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. 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. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further 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.

Author : Jennifer Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108808190

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Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries, new audacity writing takes risks with its author's and others' reputations, and even, on occasion, with the law. This book offers an examination and critical assessment of new audacity in works by Katherine Angel, Alison Bechdel, Marie Calloway, Virginie Despentes, Tracey Emin, Sheila Heti, Juliet Jacques, Chris Krauss, Jana Leo, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Paul Preciado, and Kate Zambreno. It analyses how they write about women's self-authorship, trans experiences, struggles with mental illness, sexual violence and rape, and the desire for sexual submission. It engages with recent feminist and gender scholarship, providing discussions of vulnerability, victimhood, authenticity, trauma, and affect.

Author : Mary Eagleton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405183136

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Now in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field Fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field over the last decade Includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches and theoretical positions in contemporary feminist literary studies Features a new section, Writing 'Glocal', which covers feminism's dialogue with postcolonial, global and spatial studies Revised chapter introductions provide readers with helpful contextual information while extensive notes offer recommendations for further reading

Author : Josephine C. Donovan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813181631

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The first major book of feminist critical theory published in the United States is now available in an expanded second edition. This widely cited pioneering work presents a new introduction by the editor and a new bibliography of feminist critical theory from the last decade. This book has become indispensable to an understanding of feminist theory. Contributors include Cheri Register, Dorin Schumacher, Marcia Holly, Barbara Currier Bell, Carol Ohmann, Carolyn Heilbrun, Catherine Stimpson, and Barbara A. White.

Author : Mary Eagleton
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 1996-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780631197348

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Radically 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.