The Cambridge companion to feminist literary theory /
Companion to feminist literary theory
edited by Ellen Rooney.
- ix, 309 p.
- Cambridge companion to literature .
- Cambridge companions to literature. .
Includes bibliographical references.
On canons : anxious history and the rise of black feminist literary studies / Pleasure, resistance, and a feminist aesthetics of reading / The literary politics of feminist theory / What feminism did to novel studies / Autobiography and the feminist subject / Modernisms and feminisms / French feminism's ecriture feminine / Feminism and popular culture / Poststructuralism : theory as critical self-consciousness / Feminists theorize colonial/postcolonial / On common ground? : feminist theory and critical race studies / Feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism / Queer politics, queer theory, and the future of "identity" : spiralling out of culture / Ann Ducille -- Geraldine Heng -- Ellen Rooney -- Nancy Armstrong -- Linda Anderson -- Katherine Mullin -- Karl Weil -- Nickianne Moody -- Rey Chow -- Rosemary Marangoly George -- Rashmi Varma -- Elizabeth Weed -- Berthold Schoene. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
"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."--Publisher description.