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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778479803321

Autore

Kaplan Carla

Titolo

The Erotics of Talk [[electronic resource] ] : Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

1-280-52826-5

0-19-534457-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

810.99287

813.0099287

Soggetti

American literature

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Feminism and literature

Jacobs, Harriet A

Literary form

Narration (Rhetoric)

Women and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: In Search of an Ideal Listener; In Search of an Ideal Listener; Theorizing Cultural Conversation; The Ethics of Feminist Criticism; Listening to Women's Writing; The Erotics of Talk; Stipulations: ""Can We Talk?""; I: THE POLITICS OF RECUPERATION; 1 silence: Reading Feminist Reading: Recuperative Reading and the Silent Heroine of Feminist Criticism; 2 contracts: Recuperating Agents: Narrative Contracts, Emancipatory Readers, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; II: THE EROTICS OF TALK; 3 romance: Girl Talk: Jane Eyre and the Romance of Women's Narration

4 dialogue: ""That Oldest Human Longing"": The Erotics of Talk in Their Eyes Were Watching God5 exchange: ""Somebody I Can Talk To"": Teaching Feminism Through The Color Purple; Conclusion: Auditions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y



Sommario/riassunto

A rereading of the American feminist criticism of the past two decades and the literary canon which it has constructed as its foundation. It reads a group of feminist classics focusing on how each work represents talk and how feminist criticism has talked about these representations.