04670oam 2200805I 450 991082324400332120240131154043.01-136-32201-91-283-60524-497866139176901-136-32202-70-203-12056-610.4324/9780203120569 (CKB)2670000000242337(EBL)1024597(OCoLC)811506145(SSID)ssj0000741545(PQKBManifestationID)11418379(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000741545(PQKBWorkID)10720950(PQKB)10628509(MiAaPQ)EBC1024597(Au-PeEL)EBL1024597(CaPaEBR)ebr10603726(CaONFJC)MIL391769(OCoLC)815478742(FINmELB)ELB135616(EXLCZ)99267000000024233720180706e20121992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew feminist discourses critical essays on theories and texts /edited by Isobel ArmstrongAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (385 p.)Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literatureFirst published in 1992 by Routledge.0-415-75227-2 0-415-52166-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.NEW FEMINIST DISCOURSES Critical Essays on Theories and Texts; Copyright; NEW FEMINIST DISCOURSES Critical Essays on Theories and Texts; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Knowledges; Chapter 2 Feminist aesthetics and the new realism; Chapter 3 Walking, women and writing: Virginia Woolf as flâneuse; Chapter 4 Happy families? Feminist reproduction and matrilineal thought; Chapter 5 An other space: a future for feminism?; Part II Subjectivities; Chapter 6 Releasing possibility into form: cultural choice and the woman writerChapter 7 Fakes and femininity: Vita Sackville-West and her motherChapter 8 The dangers of Angela Carter; Part III Languages; Chapter 9 Love, mourning and metaphor: terms of identity; Chapter 10 Why the Lady's eyes are nothing like the sun; Chapter 11 Unsilent instruments and the devil's cushions: authority in seventeenth-century women's prophetic discourse; Part IV Representations; Chapter 12 Getting down to basics: art, obscenity and the female nude; Chapter 13 Do or die: problems of agency and gender in the aesthetics of murderChapter 14 The politics of focus: feminism and photography theoryChapter 15 The hand of the huntress: repetition and Malory's Morte Darthur; Part V Others; Chapter 16 New hystericism: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: the body, the text and the feminist critic; Chapter 17 The great distinction: figures of the exotic in the work of William Hodges; Chapter 18 'Because men made the laws': the fallen woman and the woman poet; IndexThis collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered knowledge and the implications of accounts of gendered language, cultural restraints on the representation of sexuality, women's agency, cultural and political change, a feminist aesthetics and new readings of race and class. This variety is given coherence by a unity of aim - to forge new feminRoutledge library editions.Women, feminism and literature.English literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismEnglish literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etcFeminism and literatureGreat BritainWomen and literatureGreat BritainFeminist criticismGreat BritainSex role in literatureEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Feminism and literatureWomen and literatureFeminist criticismSex role in literature.305.4201820.99287820/.9/9287Armstrong Isobel164623MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823244003321New feminist discourses4097337UNINA