Originally published in 1991. The style of this startlingly original
appraisal of a broad range of women’s writing suggests a new
direction for feminist criticism, combining as it does challenging,
intellectual debate and fresh textual analysis with fictional example
and autobiographical detail to make a wholly new invention in the
field. In addressing the need for the critic to say ‘I’ and to own
judgments and statements instead of attributing these to an apparently
impersonal third person, the author here points up some of the
shortcomings of much prevailing ‘feminist’ analysis, challenging
the very foundations of the Anglo-American feminist idea. Purposely
avoiding the ‘totalising’ effect of much academic criticism, the
writer/critic finds a new format and a new methodology for her
insights and observations on a range of writers, from Doris Lessing to
Hélène Cixious. Her unique analysis of the links between criticism
and autobiography enable her to highlight the absurdity of attempting
to write in the light of recent critical and scientific knowledge as
if the self were a stable, unified construct, introducing instead a
new, creative understanding of the methods and modes of women’s
writing. This sparkling collection presents an exciting and original
new voice in literary criticism. It tackles issues fundamental to
literary theory, feminist criticism, psychoanalysis and cultural
studies, offering new critical insights and providing a significant
and wholly original feminist contribution to these key fields.
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ISBN
9781000653120
Publisert
2022
Utgave
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Vendor
Routledge
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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