The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory 1st Edition by Ellen Rooney 0521807069 9780521807067

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ISBN 10: 0521807069 

ISBN 13: 9780521807067

Author: Ellen Rooney

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.

Table of contents:

Part 1. Problematics emerge

1 On canons: anxious history and the rise of black feminist literary studies

2 Pleasure, resistance, and a feminist aesthetics of reading

3 The literary politics of feminist theory

Part 2 In feminism’s wake: genre, period, form

4 What feminism did to novel studies

5 Autobiography and the feminist subject

6 Modernisms and feminisms

7 French feminism’s écriture féminine

8 Feminism and popular culture

Part 3 Feminist theories in play

9 Poststructuralism: theory as critical self-consciousness

10 Feminists theorize colonial/postcolonial

11 On common ground?: feminist theory and critical race studies

12 Feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism

13 Queer politics, queer theory, and the future of “identity”: spiralling out of culture

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