Feminist Theory, Women's Writing / / Laurie A. Finke.
In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their histo...
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Superior document: | Reading Women Writing |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press,, [2018] ©1992 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Reading women writing.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A Powerful Infidel Heteroglossia: Toward a Feminist Theory of Complexity -- 2. The Rhetoric of Desire in the Courtly Lyric -- 3. The Grotesque Mystical Body: Representing the Woman Writer -- 4. Style as Noise: Identity and Ideology in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- 5. Theories of Value and the Dialogics of Culture -- Afterword: From Text to Work -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical context and the larger framework of current theory concerning language, representation, subjectivity, and value. |
ISBN: | 1501726269 1501726250 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Laurie A. Finke. |