Feminist Literary Criticism

Feminist Literary Criticism
Title Feminist Literary Criticism PDF eBook
Author Josephine C. Donovan
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 131
Release 2021-03-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0813181631

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The first major book of feminist critical theory published in the United States is now available in an expanded second edition. This widely cited pioneering work presents a new introduction by the editor and a new bibliography of feminist critical theory from the last decade. This book has become indispensable to an understanding of feminist theory. Contributors include Cheri Register, Dorin Schumacher, Marcia Holly, Barbara Currier Bell, Carol Ohmann, Carolyn Heilbrun, Catherine Stimpson, and Barbara A. White.

Cultural Criticism

Cultural Criticism
Title Cultural Criticism PDF eBook
Author Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher SAGE Publications
Pages 212
Release 1995
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780803957343

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Arthur Asa Berger's unique ability to translate difficult theories into accessible language makes this book an ideal introduction to cultural criticism. Berger covers the key theorists, concepts, and subject areas, from literary, sociological and psychoanalytical theories to semiotics and Marxism. Cultural Criticism breathes new life into the discipline by making these theories relevant to students' lives. The author illustrates his explanations with excerpts from classic works giving readers a sense of the important thinkers' styles and helping place them in their context. Berger also provides a comprehensive bibliography on cultural criticism for those who wish to explore the topics at greater length. Cultural Criticism is the perfect undergraduate supplemental text for such courses as media studies, literary criticism, and popular culture.

A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

A History of Feminist Literary Criticism
Title A History of Feminist Literary Criticism PDF eBook
Author Gill Plain
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 366
Release 2007-08-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1139465821

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Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the Middle Ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards, and analyses the work of pioneers such as Wollstonecraft and Woolf. The second section examines the rise of second-wave feminism and maps its interventions across the twentieth century. A final section examines the impact of postmodernism on feminist thought and practice. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the history and development of feminist literary criticism and a lively reassessment of the main issues and authors in the field. It is essential reading for all students and scholars of feminist writing and literary criticism.

Feminist Criticism and Social Change (RLE Feminist Theory)

Feminist Criticism and Social Change (RLE Feminist Theory)
Title Feminist Criticism and Social Change (RLE Feminist Theory) PDF eBook
Author Deborah Rosenfelt
Publisher Routledge
Pages 346
Release 2013-05-20
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136204490

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This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a ‘materialist-feminist’ criticism of literature and culture. Such a criticism is based on the view that the material conditions in which men and women live are central to an understanding of culture and society. It emphasises the relation of gender to other categories of analysis, such as class and race, and considers the connection between ideology and cultural practice, and the ways in which all relations of power change with changing social and economic conditions. By presenting a wide range of work by major feminist scholars, this anthology in effect defines as well as illustrates the materialist-feminist tendency in current literary criticism. The essays in the first part of the book examine race, ideology, and the literary canon and explore the ways in which other critical discourse, such as those of deconstruction and French feminism, might be useful to a feminist and materialist criticism. The second part of the book contains examples of such criticism in practice, with studies of individual works, writers and ideas. An introduction by the editors situates the collected essays in relation both to one another and to a shared materialist/feminist project. Feminist Criticism and Social Change demonstrates the important contribution of materialist-feminist criticism to our understanding of literature and society, and fulfils a crucial need among those concerned with gender and its relation to criticism.

Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism

Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism
Title Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism PDF eBook
Author Java Singh
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 302
Release 2022-06-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9811914265

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Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism explores inter-disciplinary connections across Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Psychology, and feminist literary criticism to develop a theoretical framework for spatial criticism. Using the spatial gynocritics framework developed in the book, it analyzes selected texts from five different genres–short-story, novel, film, cartoons, and OTT series, created by women. The creators discussed in the book constitute a transnational collectivity of women that shares common concerns about gender, environment, technology, and social hierarchies. They comprise a geographically and linguistically diverse group from India, Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, and the USA. The book offers immense potential for a comparative study on numerous aspects, among which the present work concentrates on the treatment of Space, demonstrating that spatial logic and grammar are essential elements of the feminist praxis. The book reveals the unexamined potential in the women creators’ praxis of destabilizing, decentring, and destroying the ascribed centres around which social arrangements are structured. Moreover, the book offers valuable analytic tools that add to scholarship in literary theory, comparative cultural studies, comparative literature, gender studies, feminist criticism, and interdisciplinary humanities. It is an indispensable aid to students and faculty in these areas of study, enabling them to critique texts from a fresh perspective.

Where the Meanings Are (Routledge Revivals)

Where the Meanings Are (Routledge Revivals)
Title Where the Meanings Are (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook
Author Catharine R. Stimpson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 258
Release 2014-07-11
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317606248

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First published in 1990, this collection of essays in literary criticism, feminist theory and race relations was named one of the top twenty-five books of 1988 by the Voice Literary Supplement. The title covers such subjects as black literature; the reconstruction of culture, changing arts, letters and sciences to include the topics of women and gender; and, the nature of family and the changing roles of women within society. As such, Catharine Stimpson employs a transdisciplinary approach, to encourage greater understanding of the differences among women, and thus socially-constructed differences in general. Where the Meanings Are tells of some of the arguments within feminism during the re-designing and designing of cultural spaces, as post-modernism began to change the boundaries of race, class, and gender. It will therefore be of great value to students and general readers with an interest in the relationship between gender and culture, sex and gender difference, feminist theory and literature.

Crossing the Double-cross

Crossing the Double-cross
Title Crossing the Double-cross PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth A. Meese
Publisher Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Pages 208
Release 1986
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism