This text offers an exploration of women's writing that focuses on the close links between literary texts and the theories that construct those texts as "women's writing". Each chapter deals with one of the issues or concepts that have engaged both authors and theorists -rhetoric, work, consciousness, nature, class and race. A detailed analysis shows how each concept has been u...
This text offers an exploration of women's writing that focuses on the close links between literary texts and the theories that construct those texts as "women's writing". Each chapter deals with one of the issues or concepts that have engaged both authors and theorists -rhetoric, work, consciousness, nature, class and race. A detailed analysis shows how each concept has been used by feminists to construct a specific text in such a way that it is received as a work of "women's writing", particularly in American literature. Using canonical texts, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman through Kate Chopin and Willa Cather to Alice Walker and Ann Beattie, the book engages with the major debates within feminist studies. Moving on from Showalte's groundbreaking work to broaden the trajectory of feminist concern, it is an accessible account of the varieties of feminist thought within the context of the key American texts.
作者简介
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Deborah L. Madsen is Professor of American Literature at the University of Geneva, and the author of numerous books on aspects of literature, genre, gender and allegory, including Beyond the Borders (Pluto Press, 2003) and Feminist Theory and Literary Practice (Pluto Press, 2000).
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she remarks that in our patriarchal society erotica and pornography are categorised indistinguishably as obscenity: because sex and violence are so dangerously intertwined and confused. After all, it takes violence or the threat of it to maintain the unearned dominance of any group of human beings over another (pp. 219 220).
Introduction, P11 (查看原文)
I have seen the extreme vanity of this world. One hour I have been in health and wealth, wanting nothin
Ig, but the next hour in sickness and wounds and death, having nothing but sorrow and affliction. Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it. I should sometimes be jealous lest I should have my portion in this life, and that scripture would come to mind, Heb 12:6, For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. But now I see the Lord had His time to scourge and chasten me (p. 75) (查看原文)
0 有用 无轨女 2021-12-22 11:08:47
很系统但是挺基础