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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792097203321

Autore

Gallop Jane <1952-, >

Titolo

Around 1981 : academic feminist literary theory / / Jane Gallop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-32173-X

1-283-58694-0

9786613899392

0-203-12052-3

1-136-32174-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature

Around 1981 : academic feminist literary theory ; ; v. 6

Disciplina

820.99287

Soggetti

Feminist literary criticism

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Feminism and literature

Women and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1992 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; New: AROUND 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory; New: Copyright Page; Old: AROUND 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory; Old: Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; I: Around 1981; 1. The Difference Within (Writing and Sexual Difference); 2. The Problem of Definition (The New Feminist Criticism); II: Sidetracks; 3. ""French Feminism"" (L'Arc 61); 4. The Monster in the Mirror (Yale French Studies 62); 5. Reading the Mother Tongue (The (M)other Tongue); 6. The Coloration of Academic Feminism (The Poetics of Gender); III: Going Back

7. Writing About Ourselves (Images of Women in Fiction)8. An Idea Presented Before Its Time (Feminist Literary Criticism); 9. A Contradiction in Terms (Feminist Criticism); IV. Going On (In); 10. Tongue Work (Conjuring); 11. The Attraction of Matrimonial Metaphor (Making a Difference); 12. History is Like Mother (Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship); Afterword; Notes; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Jane Gallop's book offers a clear-eyed and comprehensive history of feminist literary criticism. Why, she asks, have we so quickly buried 1970s feminist criticism? What lies buried there? Why do 1990s academic feminists accuse other academic feminists of being 'academic'?Gallop takes the novel approach of structuring her inquiry around anthologies of feminist criticism: twelve important texts that have had a wide impact on more than a decade of scholarship. In reading an anthology as a whole, she typically identifies a central, hegemonic voice (usually that of the editor/s) which wou