The New Feminist Criticism

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : New York : Pantheon
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0394539133

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The New Feminist Criticism by Elaine Showalter Pdf

"The New Feminist Criticism" brings together for the first time the most influential and controversial essays on the feminist approach to literature. These groundbreaking essays by well-known critics offer a much-needed overview of feminist critical theory, and illustrate its practice. In "The New Feminist Criticism" the authors take up a variety of topics. They challenge received notions of literary tradition and shows how women's writing has been systematically excluded, misread, and misinterpreted. They address the relationship of women's writing to ethnicity, separatism, and feminism itself. And they ask how it differs from that of men, with regard to recurrent images, symbols, themes, and plots. Complete with a bibliography of feminist literary theory, "The New Feminist Criticism" is an indispensable introduction to one of the most important intellectual movements of recent times. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Joanna Frueh,Cassandra L. Langer,Arlene Raven
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39076001349575

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New Feminist Criticism by Joanna Frueh,Cassandra L. Langer,Arlene Raven Pdf

Author : Jennifer Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108471930

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The New Feminist Literary Studies by Jennifer Cooke Pdf

Presents essays by feminists of theory and literature that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today.

Author : Katy Deepwell
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8437616328

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New Feminist Art Criticism by Katy Deepwell Pdf

The artist, the critic and the academic: feminism's problematic relationship with 'Theory'/ Janet Wolff -- Preaching to the converted? Feminist art publishing in the 1980s / Frances Borzello -- The sphinx contemplating Napoleon : black women artists in Britain / Gilane Tawadros -- Reading between the lines: the imprinted spaces of Sutapa Biswas / Moira Roth -- Modernism, art education and sexual difference /Pen Dalton -- Eyewitnesses, not spectators/activists, not academics: feminist pedagogy and women's creativity / Val A. Walsh -- Exhibiting strategies / Debbie Duffin -- The situation of women curators / Elizabeth A. MacGregor -- Afterthoughts on curating 'The subversive stitch' / Pennina Barnett -- The cult of the individual / Fran Cottell -- On women dealers in the art world / Maureen Paley -- Where do we draw the line? An investigation into the censorship of art / Anna Douglas --Women's movements: feminism, censorship and performance art / Sally Dawson -- Why have there been no great women pornagraphers? / Naomi Salaman -- Just jamming: Irigaray, painting and psychoanalysis / Christine Battersby -- Border crossing: womanliness, body, repre-sentation / Hilary Robinson -- (P)age 49: on the subject of history / Mary Kelly -- Models of painting practice: too much body? / Joan Key --Text and textiles: weaving across the borderlines / Janis Jefferies --Kinda art, sorta tapestry ... / Ann Newdigate -- Sewn constructions / Dinah Prentice -- Penelope and the unravelling of history / Ruth Scheuing.

Author : Isobel Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415521666

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New Feminist Discourses by Isobel Armstrong Pdf

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 feminist discourses by addressing conceptual and cultural questions central to problems of gender and sexual difference. The topics of discussion range from matrilinear thought to seventeenth-century prophecy; the poetry of Amelia Lanyer to Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs; from Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf to eighteenth-century colonial painting of the South Pacific; from medieval romance to feminist epistemology. The essays utilise and question the disciplines of literary criticism, art history, photography, psychoanalysis, Marxist history and post-structuralist theory.

Author : Jane Marcus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349054862

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New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf by Jane Marcus Pdf

Author : Barbara Christian
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252090820

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New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 by Barbara Christian Pdf

A passionate and celebrated pioneer in her own words New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 collects a selection of essays and reviews from Barbara Christian, one of the founding voices in black feminist literary criticism. Published between the release of her second landmark book Black Feminist Criticism and her death, these writings include eloquent reviews, evaluations of black feminist criticism as a discipline, reflections on black feminism in the academy, and essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and others.

Author : Gill Plain,Susan Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139465821

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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism by Gill Plain,Susan Sellers Pdf

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.

Author : Gayle Green,Coppélia Kahn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000158700

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Making a Difference by Gayle Green,Coppélia Kahn Pdf

Feminist scholarship employs gender as a fundamental organizing category of human experience, holding two related premises: men and women have different perceptions or experiences in the same contexts, the male perspective having been dominant in fields of knowledge; and that gender is not a natural fact but a social construct, a subject to study in any humanistic discipline. This challenging collection of essays by prominent feminist literary critics offers a comprehensive introduction to modes of critical practice being used to trace the construction of gender in literature. The collection provides an invaluable overview of current femionist critical thinking. Its essays address a wide range of topics: the rerlevance of gender scholarship in the social sciences to literary criticism; the tradition of women's literature and its relation to the canon; the politics of language; French theories of the feminine; psychoanalysis and feminism; feminist criticism of writing by lesbians and black women; the relationship between female subjectivity, class, and sexuality; feminist readings of the canon.

Author : Josephine C. Donovan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813181639

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Feminist Literary Criticism by Josephine C. Donovan Pdf

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.

Author : Annis Pratt
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1970-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822974109

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Dylan Thomas’ Early Prose by Annis Pratt Pdf

This first full-scale treatment of the early prose of Dylan Thomas demonstrates the unity of his total work. Pratt argues that the inward journey of the poetic imagination which is implicit in poetry is often explicit in prose. Her study of Thomas’ early prose alongside his early poetry helps to elucidate all of his writing. Pratt includes three appendices: a chronology, a summary of the critics’ attitudes toward the problem of influence, and a bibliographical sketch of materials in the Parris surrealist magazine transition, which are paralleled in Thomas’ prose.

Author : Judith Spector
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0879723521

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Gender Studies by Judith Spector Pdf

The essays in Gender Studies explore relationships between gender and creativity, identity, and genre within the context of literary analysis. Some of the essays are psychoanalytic in approach in that they seek to discover the sexual dynamic/s involved in the creation of literature as an art form. Still others attempt to isolate and examine the sexual attitudes inherent in the works of particular authors or genres, or to determine how writers explore the sensibilities of each gender.

Author : Mary Eagleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317900054

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Feminist Literary Criticism by Mary Eagleton Pdf

Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse. It also provides an overview of the developments in feminist literary theory, and covers all the major debates within literary feminism, including "male feminism".

Author : Elaine Hedges,Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012351610

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Listening to Silences by Elaine Hedges,Shelley Fisher Fishkin Pdf

Thirty years ago, in a lecture at the Radcliffe Institute, Tillie Olsen first addressed the problem of silences in literature - paving the way for future explorations of the subject, including her landmark work, Silences. The subject of silences and silencing - as fact, as trope, as lens through which to understand literary history - has been central to feminist criticism ever since. In Listening to Silences, a group of distinguished feminist literary critics reevaluates Olsen's heritage to reassert, extend, redefine, and question her insights, and to probe the dynamics of silence and silencing as they operate today in literature, criticism, and the academy. The book traces for the first time the genealogy of an important American critical tradition, one that still influences contemporary debates about feminism, multiculturalism, and the literary canon. Forming a highly diverse group, the contributors to Listening to Silences include Kate Adams, Norma Alarcon, Joanne Braxton, King-Kok Cheung, Constance Coiner, Robin Dizard, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Diana Hume George, Elaine Hedges, Carla Kaplan, Patricia Laurence, Rebecca Mark, Diane Middlebrook, Carla L. Peterson, Lillian Robinson, Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt, Judith L. Sensibar, Judith Bryant Wittenberg, and Sharon Zuber.

Author : So Mayer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857729941

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Political Animals by So Mayer Pdf

Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pakistan, South Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Kenya and The Cree Nation; a bold emergent trans cinema; feminist porn screened at public festivals; Sweden's A-Markt for films that pass the Bechdel Test; and Pussy Riot's online videos sending shockwaves around the world. A new generation of feminist filmmakers, curators and critics is not only influencing contemporary debates on gender and sexuality, but starting to change cinema itself, calling for a film world that is intersectional, sustainable, family-friendly and far-reaching. Political Animals argues that, forty years since Laura Mulvey's seminal essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' identified the urgent need for a feminist counter-cinema, this promise seems to be on the point of fulfilment. Forty years of a transnational, trans-generational cinema has given rise to conversations between the work of now well-established filmmakers such as Abigail Child, Sally Potter and Agnes Varda, twenty-first century auteurs including Kelly Reichardt and Lucretia Martel, and emerging directors such as Sandrine Bonnaire, Shonali Bose, Zeina Daccache, and Hana Makhmalbaf. A new and diverse generation of British independent filmmakers such as Franny Armstrong, Andrea Arnold, Amma Asante, Clio Barnard, Tina Gharavi, Sally El Hoseini, Carol Morley, Samantha Morton, Penny Woolcock, and Campbell X join a worldwide dialogue between filmmakers and viewers hungry for a new and informed point of view. Lovely, vigorous and brave, the new feminist cinema is a political animal that refuses to be domesticated by the persistence of everyday sexism, striking out boldly to claim the public sphere as its own.