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LITERATURE AFTER FEMINISM

By:

Rita Felski

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0226241157

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9780226241159

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

1 July, 2003

Edition:

2nd ed.

Pages:

192

Description:

The cariacatures of feminists as grim-faced ideologues destroying the study of literature are comprehensively rebutted in this work, offering instead a clear assessment of the relative merits of various feminist approaches to literature.

Synopsis:

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. "Literature After Feminism" should be welcomed by anyone looking for a lucid and balanced account of feminist criticism.

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University of Chicago Press

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