The Pleasure Of The Feminist Text

Author : Susanne Gruss
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789042025318

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The Pleasure of the Feminist Text by Susanne Gruss Pdf

"I would regard myself as a feminist writer, because I'm a feminist in everything else and one can't compartmentalise these things in one's life." (Angela Carter) "When I became a feminist in 1968, I felt that I'd come home: the first home I ever had that was feminine. And it was very wild and theatrical and erotic, the early feminism." (Michèle Roberts) Angela Carter and Michèle Roberts share a keen interest in gender and sexual identity, but many of their topics seem to mark them as opposites: Roberts's fascination with the impact of religion, motherhood and autobiography on female identity covers areas that Carter shuns in her writings. In reading these two authors parallel and in contrast to each other, this monograph follows a triple objective: it provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the works of Roberts, explores aspects of Carter's work that have not yet been analyzed sufficiently (religion, motherhood, and masculinity), and uses both authors to explore motifs and strategies of feminist writing. The analyses of both authors' works are supplemented by close readings of a wide range of theoretical perspectives (especially French feminism and psychoanalysis) and concise theoretical outlines of the topics covered (radical feminism, religion, motherhood and fatherhood, masculinity, fairy tales, romances and chick lit, and history and auto/biography).

Author : Susanne Gruss
Publisher : Editions Rodopi
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441606572

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"I would regard myself as a feminist writer, because I'm a feminist in everything else and one can't compartmentalise these things in one's life." (Angela Carter)

Author : Alice Bach
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015020794338

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The Pleasure of Her Text by Alice Bach Pdf

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226241159

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Literature After Feminism by Rita Felski Pdf

Recent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. Literature after Feminism is the first work to comprehensively rebut such caricatures, while also offering a clear-eyed assessment of the relative merits of various feminist approaches to literature. Spelling out her main arguments clearly and succinctly, Rita Felski explains how feminism has changed the ways people read and think about literature. She organizes her book around four key questions: Do women and men read differently? How have feminist critics imagined the female author? What does plot have to do with gender? And what do feminists have to say about the relationship between literary and political value? Interweaving incisive commentary with literary examples, Felski advocates a double critical vision that can do justice to the social and political meanings of literature without dismissing or scanting the aesthetic.

Author : Maggie Allison,Elliot Evans,Carrie Tarr
Publisher : Modern French Identities
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : French literature
ISBN : 1788743830

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Plaisirs de Femmes by Maggie Allison,Elliot Evans,Carrie Tarr Pdf

The pursuit of women's pleasures, often expected to be constrained under patriarchy, is potentially transgressive and linked to women's emancipation in other realms. This book explores a wide range of examples of women and pleasure in French and francophone culture, from novels to stand-up comedy.

Author : Leonora Carrington
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681374642

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The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington Pdf

An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is “hard of hearing” but “full of life.”

Author : Dana Schwartz
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781478970385

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Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz Pdf

A"hilarious and heartbreaking" (Jo Piazza) and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping--and sometimes failing--to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful choices she made in her early twenties through the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of "you can be anything you want!" is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she's a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best. This long-form personality quiz manages to combine humor with unflinching honesty as one young woman tries to find herself amid the many, many choices that your twenties have to offer.

Author : Derek Longhurst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415523264

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Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure by Derek Longhurst Pdf

Annotation Responding to a fundamental challenge from feminism, a primary objective of this book is to propose that all narrative and its reading are intrinsically inflected by sexual politics. Various approaches represented here demonstrate problems of confronting the gendered pleasures of reading.

Author : Colin Channer
Publisher : One World
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345425522

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Waiting in Vain by Colin Channer Pdf

Meet Fire--Jamaican-born, charming, poetic, and talented--a man who's vowed to never play "love-is-blind" games again. Then he meets Sylvia, a beautiful magazine editor who keeps her passions under lock and key. Together they must choose between the love in their lives and the love of their lives. From the galleries of Soho to the brownstones of Brooklyn, from the nightclubs of London to the streets of Kingston, Jamaica, Channer takes us on a wild, soul-searching ride as Fire and Sylvia try to connect, disconnect, and reconnect amid conflicting desires and wounds from the past. But through intricate love triangles, skewed priorities, and crushing personal tragedies, Fire, Sylvia, and their friends must learn that some things in life are worth fighting for. If not, you're simply waiting in vain.

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226241166

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Literature after Feminism by Rita Felski Pdf

Recent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. Literature after Feminism is the first work to comprehensively rebut such caricatures, while also offering a clear-eyed assessment of the relative merits of various feminist approaches to literature. Spelling out her main arguments clearly and succinctly, Rita Felski explains how feminism has changed the ways people read and think about literature. She organizes her book around four key questions: Do women and men read differently? How have feminist critics imagined the female author? What does plot have to do with gender? And what do feminists have to say about the relationship between literary and political value? Interweaving incisive commentary with literary examples, Felski advocates a double critical vision that can do justice to the social and political meanings of literature without dismissing or scanting the aesthetic.

Author : Ellen Rooney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139826631

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The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory by Ellen Rooney Pdf

Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.

Author : Jane Gallop
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231066112

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Thinking Through the Body by Jane Gallop Pdf

From one of our most outspoken feminist critics, this collection explores various ways in which the body can be rethought of as a site of knowledge rather than as a medium to move beyond or dominate. Moving between a theoretical and confessional stance, Gallop explores Sade's relation to mothers both in his novels and his life; Barthe's The Pleasure of the Text; Freud's work, read not as a psychological text but as a literary endeavor and from a woman's point of view; and Luce Irigarary's famous This Sex Which Is Not One.

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674068955

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Beyond Feminist Aesthetics by Rita Felski Pdf

Felski presents a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and analyzes contemporary fiction by women to show that no theorist can identify a specifically "female" or "feminine" kind of writing without reference to what gender means at a given historical moment. She argues that the idea of a feminist aesthetic is a non-issue needlessly pursued by feminists. She calls for a consideration of the social and cultural context in which these texts were produced and received, and demonstrates her method of an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of literature which can integrate literary and social theory. ISBN 0-674-06894-7: $25.00; ISBN 0-674-06895-5 (pbk.): $9.95.

Author : Barbara Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674001915

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The Feminist Difference by Barbara Johnson Pdf

Employing surprising juxtapositions, THE FEMINIST DIFFERENCE looks at fiction by black writers from a feminist/psychoanalytic perspective, at poetry, and at feminism and law. The author presents an unfailingly close reading of moments at which feminism seems to founder in its own contradictions--and moments that reemerge as sources of a revitalized critical awareness. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Tristan Taormino,Constance Penley,Celine Shimizu,Mireille Miller-Young
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781558618183

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The Feminist Porn Book by Tristan Taormino,Constance Penley,Celine Shimizu,Mireille Miller-Young Pdf

The Feminist Porn Book celebrates the power of desire, turning the spotlight on an industry where feminism is thriving.