TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rooney,Ellen
TI  - The Cambridge companion to feminist literary theory
T2  - Cambridge companion to literature
SN  - 9780521807067 (hardback)
AV  - PN98.W64 C35 2006
U1  - 801/.95082 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Feminist literary criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 1; On canons : anxious history and the rise of black feminist literary studies; Ann Ducille --; 2; Pleasure, resistance, and a feminist aesthetics of reading; Geraldine Heng --; 3; The literary politics of feminist theory; Ellen Rooney --; 4; What feminism did to novel studies; Nancy Armstrong --; 5; Autobiography and the feminist subject; Linda Anderson --; 6; Modernisms and feminisms; Katherine Mullin --; 7; French feminism's ecriture feminine; Karl Weil --; 8; Feminism and popular culture; Nickianne Moody --; 9; Poststructuralism : theory as critical self-consciousness; Rey Chow --; 10; Feminists theorize colonial/postcolonial; Rosemary Marangoly George --; 11; On common ground? : feminist theory and critical race studies; Rashmi Varma --; 12; Feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism; Elizabeth Weed --; 13; Queer politics, queer theory, and the future of "identity" : spiralling out of culture; Berthold Schoene
N2  - "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
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