Literature After Feminism Hardcover - 2003 - 1st Edition

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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.

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Title Literature After Feminism
Author Rita Felski
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 204
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Date 2003-07
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780226241142 / 0226241149
Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 5.68 x 0.82 in (22.86 x 14.43 x 2.08 cm)
Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
Library of Congress subjects Women and literature, Feminist criticism
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002153271
Dewey Decimal Code 801.950

About the author

Rita Felski is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change, The Gender of Modernity, and Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture.

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New. 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… Read More