Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism
Title | Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Gayle Austin |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 158 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780472064298 |
Looks at post-war American drama by women, bridging the gap between theatrical theory and feminist theory
Performing Feminisms
Title | Performing Feminisms PDF eBook |
Author | Sue-Ellen Case |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 342 |
Release | 1990-02 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780801839696 |
A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.
Feminist Literary Criticism
Title | Feminist Literary Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Josephine C. Donovan |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | 131 |
Release | 2021-03-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813181631 |
The first major book of feminist critical theory published in the United States is now available in an expanded second edition. This widely cited pioneering work presents a new introduction by the editor and a new bibliography of feminist critical theory from the last decade. This book has become indispensable to an understanding of feminist theory. Contributors include Cheri Register, Dorin Schumacher, Marcia Holly, Barbara Currier Bell, Carol Ohmann, Carolyn Heilbrun, Catherine Stimpson, and Barbara A. White.
Feminist Literary Criticism
Title | Feminist Literary Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Eagleton |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2014-06-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317900057 |
Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse. It also provides an overview of the developments in feminist literary theory, and covers all the major debates within literary feminism, including "male feminism".
Problems for Feminist Criticism (RLE Feminist Theory)
Title | Problems for Feminist Criticism (RLE Feminist Theory) PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Minogue |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136195254 |
Feminist criticism has come a long way in the last twenty years. Its development has been rapid, its snowball progress picking up elements of structuralism, deconstruction and psychoanalytic criticism; just as rapidly it has been shedding its own early theories and methodologies. Now it is a critical orthodoxy with its own established canonical texts. Now is the time, then, to begin to question that orthodoxy. In Problems for Feminist Criticism five women critics seek to do that, in a spirit of enquiry whose central point of focus is the literature for which feminist critics have offered a re-reading. By reference to a wide range of writers, from Milton to the contemporary poet, with a strong emphasis on the nineteenth-century novel, the contributors ask what we may be losing from literature by adopting the feminist orthodoxy. Each chapter provides a survey of feminist critical approaches to its subject and highlights the inherent problems. The book frees the way forward for critics who have found much that is stimulating and revealing in feminist approaches to literature, but who find its proscriptiveness potentially reductive. It shows how literature may have the flexibility to absorb and benefit from new critical approaches, whilst still retaining its own life, never quite to be contained in criticism’s theories and methodologies.
The Feminist Spectator as Critic
Title | The Feminist Spectator as Critic PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Dolan |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 213 |
Release | 2012-10-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0472035193 |
This groundbreaking work in gender and performance, with a new introduction and updated bibliography
Changing Subjects
Title | Changing Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Gayle Greene |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0415523567 |
These twenty autobiographical essays by eminent feminist literary critics explore the process by which women scholars became feminist scholars, articulating the connections between the personal and political in their lives and work. From these diverse histories a collective history emerges of the development of feminism. Offering a spectrum of experiences and critical positions that engage with current debates in feminism, it will be valuable to teachers and students of feminist theory, women's studies, and the history of the women's movement.