Literature After Feminism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226241159)

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.

Author: Rita Felski
ISBN-10: 0226241157
ISBN-13: 9780226241159
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2003
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.64w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2003 pg. 82
Choice 01/01/2004 pg. 902