Feminist Literary And Cultural Criticism

Author : Java Singh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811914263

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Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism by Java Singh Pdf

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.

Author : Judith Newton
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472064823

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Starting Over by Judith Newton Pdf

DIVExplores the relationships among cultural criticism, materialist feminist criticism, and mainstream feminist work /div

Author : Janet Wolff,Professor Emerita in the School of Arts Languages and Cultures Janet Wolff
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300062400

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Resident Alien by Janet Wolff,Professor Emerita in the School of Arts Languages and Cultures Janet Wolff Pdf

In this book of critical writings, Janet Wolff examines issues of exile, memoir, and movement from the perspective of the female stranger. Wolff, born in Great Britain but now living and working in the United States, discusses the positive consequences of women's travel; the use of dance (another form of mobility) as an image of liberation; whether exile or distance provides a better vantage point for cultural criticism than centrality and stability; the place of personal memoir in academic writing; and much more.

Author : Deborah Rosenfelt,Judith Newton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136204500

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Feminist Criticism and Social Change (RLE Feminist Theory) by Deborah Rosenfelt,Judith Newton Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Sheridan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040967700

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Grafts by Susan Sheridan Pdf

Author : Frances E. Mascia-Lees,Patricia Sharpe
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791491874

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Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World by Frances E. Mascia-Lees,Patricia Sharpe Pdf

Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World offers an engaged cultural criticism in a postfeminist context. At the end of the twentieth century, an increasingly globalized world has given rise to a cultural complexity characterized by a rapid increase in competing discourses, fragmented subjectivities, and irreconcilable claims over cultural representation and who has the right to speak for, or about, "others." While feminism has traditionally been a potent site for debates over questions that have arisen out of this context, recently, it has become so splintered and suspect that its insights are often dismissed as predictable, seriously reducing its capacity to offer powerful cultural criticism. In this postfeminist context, the authors argue for a cultural criticism that is strategic, not programmatic, and that preserves the multiple commitments, ideas, and positions required of interactions and identifications across lines of cultural, racial, and gender difference. Selecting sites where such interactions are highlighted and under current scrutiny—film, consumer culture, tourism, anthropology, and the academy—the authors theorize and demonstrate the struggles and maneuvers required to "take a stand" on a wide range of issues of significance to the contemporary cultural moment.

Author : Gary A. Olson,Elizabeth Hirsh
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791429636

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Women Writing Culture by Gary A. Olson,Elizabeth Hirsh Pdf

This collection of six interviews with internationally known scholars explores feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism.

Author : Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135217990

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American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s by Vincent B. Leitch Pdf

American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s fully updates Vincent B. Leitch’s classic book, American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s following the development of the American academy right up to the present day. Updated throughout and with a brand new chapter, this second edition: provides a critical history of American literary theory and practice, discussing the impact of major schools and movements examines the social and cultural background to literary research, considering the role of key theories and practices provides profiles of major figures and influential texts, outlining the connections among theorists presents a new chapter on developments since the 1980s, including discussions of feminist, queer, postcolonial and ethnic criticism. Comprehensive and engaging, this book offers a crucial overview of the development of literary studies in American universities, and a springboard to further research for all those interested in the development and study of Literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969259

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Feminism and Global Chineseness: The Cultural Production of Controversial Women Authors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Eagleton
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0631194428

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Working with Feminist Criticism by Mary Eagleton Pdf

Using the concepts and practices of feminist literary criticism, this constantly challenging workbook not only makes the connection between women's writing and women's lives but breaks new ground in enabling students to apply critical concepts and to feel more at ease with the texts common to feminist literary theory. Based on extraordinarily wide-ranging material gathered over many years by the UK's leading specialist, the workbook embodies the best of current teaching in this field. The emphasis throughout the workbook is on taking the reader more deeply into the issues raised, rather than on finding "correct" answers. Active participation is stimulated as the reader is asked to investigate, discuss and evaluate the exciting and representative texts presented by the author. Each clearly-focused section: engages the reader with direct questions and specific tasks. provides a rich variety of materials and approaches. includes suggestions for further reading and research. Working with Feminist Criticism will be essential reading for students of Literary Theory, Women's Studies and Cultural Studies and an indispensable tool for teachers. Integrated into taught courses, it will provide an excellent basis for seminar discussion and small group activities.

Author : Gayle Greene
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253116546

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Changing the Story by Gayle Greene Pdf

"... Changing the Story... gives an excellent and well-informed account of the differences between the American, Canadian, British, and French attitudes towards feminism and feminist fiction and literary theory.... a very readable book... which reminds us that literature can change us, and that through it we can change ourselves." -- Margaret Drabble "A distinctive contribution -- clear, elegant, precise, and well-read -- to the feminist discussion of narrative, of Anglo/Canadian/white North American novelists, and to contemporary fiction. Greene tracks how feminist novelists draw upon, and negotiate with traditional narrative patterns, and how their critical approach implicates, and provokes, social change. The book brings us to an intelligent post-humanism which does not scant the social meanings of metafictional critique. And, in addition, this book remembers hope." -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis "Changing the Story is an invaluable guide to the feminist classics of the last three decades. This is cultural criticism at its best: engaged, re-visionary, and politically astute." -- Nancy K. Miller "Greene tells a very good tale about how feminist fiction emerged, developed, made changes in the world, and now threatens to wane." -- The Women's Review of Books "Her probing analysis... should captivate general readers as well as academics." -- WLW Journal "Changing the Story is an important work of feminist criticism certain to spark controversy within the feminist community." -- American Literature The feminist fiction movement of the 1960s--1980s was and is as significant a movement as Modernism. Gayle Greene focuses on the works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, and Margaret Laurence to trace the roots of this feminist literary explosion. She also speculates on the future of feminist fiction in the current regressive period of "post feminism."

Author : Kornelia Freitag
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126892137

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Cultural Criticism in Women's Experimental Writing by Kornelia Freitag Pdf

Contemporary experimental poetry? By women? But is this women's writing? The type of poetry that is central to this book has long been met with surprise, if not rejection, by both critics and the general public. This volume is an introduction to recent developments in women's poetic experiments, an area that has grown from rather marginalized and isolated beginnings into a thriving and highly visible field. Women's experimental texts can no longer be ignored, but they remain a challenge to readers and critics: this study examines some of the reasons why recognition has been delayed, and it also provides a range of new readings. With particular focus on poetry by Rosmarie Waldrop, Lyn Hejinian, and Susan Howe, women's poetic experiments are shown to be a critique of current practices of cultural representation that relegate women's poetry and experimental writing to separate spheres.

Author : Maggie Humm
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106011442669

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Practising Feminist Criticism by Maggie Humm Pdf

This book offers practical readings of literary and cultural texts, and shows how literary theory and feminist criticism can be applied to the main developments and debates within each approach.

Author : Janet Todd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780745678245

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Feminist Literary History by Janet Todd Pdf

In this timely book Janet Todd offers an analysis and defence of the feminist literary history practised by Elaine Showalter and other contemporary American literary critics. She argues that this approach rightly links the political concerns of feminist criticism to the uncovering of female voices embedded in history. Todd reconstructs the development of feminist literary history from the 1960s through to the present day, highlighting the central themes as well as the strengths and weaknesses. She then examines the debate between American feminist critics, on the one hand, and feminist critics inspired by the work of French theorists such as Kristeva, Irigaray and Cixous, on the other. She defends feminist literary history against its critics and casts doubt on some of the uses of psychoanalysis in feminism. Todd also considers the debate with men and assesses the relevance of academic analyses of gender, masculinity and homosexuality. Feminist Literary History is a forceful and committed work, which addresses some of the most important issues in contemporary feminist theory and literary criticism. It will be widely read as an introductory text by students in English literature, modern languages, women's studies and cultural studies.

Author : Elizabeth A. Marchant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813016835

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Critical Acts by Elizabeth A. Marchant Pdf

"A clear, well-written, and cogent study of three major women intellectuals and their positions as creative writers and cultural critics in Latin America."--Francine Masiello, University of California, Berkeley "Insightful and often brilliant . . . especially important in countering the traditional thought that posits the notion that women did not engage in the production of culture and knowledge in 20th-century Latin America."--Susan C. Quinlan, University of Georgia Moving deftly across the gap between Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Latin America, Elizabeth Marchant examines the writing of three important women intellectuals of the early 20th century: L�cia Miguel Pereira (Brazil), Victoria Ocampo (Argentina), and Gabriela Mistral (Chile). Though Marchant acknowledges the persistence of the "bearded academy"--referring to the male-dominated nature of literary institutions--she challenges the assumption that women did not engage in the production of culture and knowledge in modern Latin America. Looking at the broad contexts in which the three authors wrote, she explores their views on race, culture, gender, and national identity, bringing into focus women's impact on the writing of the history of ideas in Latin America as well as their traditional influence as writers of personal themes. She also examines the neglected study of the critical essay as a genre. Solidly grounded in feminist theory, cultural criticism, and social history, this book offers important ground-breaking perspectives on the issue of gender criticism and the study of Third World women writers. Elizabeth A. Marchant is assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has written articles on contemporary Afro-Brazilian literature and cultural studies.