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New feminist discourses : critical essays on theories and texts / / edited by Isobel Armstrong



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Titolo: New feminist discourses : critical essays on theories and texts / / edited by Isobel Armstrong Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
Disciplina: 305.4201
820.99287
820/.9/9287
Soggetto topico: English literature - Women authors - History and criticism
English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Feminism and literature - Great Britain
Women and literature - Great Britain
Feminist criticism - Great Britain
Sex role in literature
Altri autori: ArmstrongIsobel  
Note generali: First published in 1992 by Routledge.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 writer
Chapter 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 murder
Chapter 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This 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 femin
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ISBN: 1-136-32201-9
1-283-60524-4
9786613917690
1-136-32202-7
0-203-12056-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823244003321
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Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Women, feminism and literature.