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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ISBN
9780226241166
Publisert
2020
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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