Literary Feminisms

ISBN-13: 9780333689202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 290 str.

Ruth Robbins

Opis

Literary Feminisms provides a map for charting the difficult waters that feminist theories have created in literary studies. Ruth Robbins shows the reasons for the development of feminist literary critiques, explains the difficulties and exposes some of feminism's blindspots. A wide range of theorists is discussed, ranging from Wollstonecraft to Kristeva, showing the ways in which materialist, psychoanalytic and literary accounts of feminist thinking creatively intersect. Through a series of exemplary readings, of texts such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Yellow Wallpaper, she also points out how the student reader can begin to make her or his own feminist criticism, and can learn to engage with both the politics and poetics of the literature.

Spis treści

General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Gestures Towards Definitions.- SECTION ONE: HISTORIES.- Liberal, Materialist and Socialist Literary Feminisms.- Images of Women Criticism.- The Woman as Writer: Forging Female Traditions.- SECTION TWO: (PSYCHO)ANALYSES.- Psychoanalysis and/or Feminism?.- Julia Kristeva: Rewriting the Subject.- 'Mirror, Mirror ...': Luce Irigaray and Reflections of and on the Feminine.- Helene Cixous: Laughing at the Oppositions.- SECTION THREE: DIFFERENCES.- Differences of View and Viewing the Differences: Challenging Female Traditions.- SECTION FOUR: READINGS.- Reading the Boys' Own Stories.- Reading the Writing on the Wall: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'.- The Mark on the Wall: Marking Differences, Marking Time.- Annotated Bibliography.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

RUTH ROBBINS is Lecturer in English Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK