Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : New York : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 9780394539133
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (391 download)
Book Synopsis The New Feminist Criticism by : Elaine Showalter
Download or read book The New Feminist Criticism written by Elaine Showalter and published by New York : Pantheon. This book was released on 1985 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The New Feminist Criticism" brings together for the first time the most influential and controversial essays on the feminist approach to literature. These groundbreaking essays by well-known critics offer a much-needed overview of feminist critical theory, and illustrate its practice. In "The New Feminist Criticism" the authors take up a variety of topics. They challenge received notions of literary tradition and shows how women's writing has been systematically excluded, misread, and misinterpreted. They address the relationship of women's writing to ethnicity, separatism, and feminism itself. And they ask how it differs from that of men, with regard to recurrent images, symbols, themes, and plots. Complete with a bibliography of feminist literary theory, "The New Feminist Criticism" is an indispensable introduction to one of the most important intellectual movements of recent times. -- From publisher's description.