| The Poetics of Gender Contributor(s): Miller, Nancy K. (Editor) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0231063113 ISBN-13: 9780231063111 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $37.62 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1986 Annotation: Does gender have a poetics: What difference does gender make? How does it affect writing, reading, and the functions of text in society? "The Poetics of Gender" is a brilliant assembly of leading feminist critics whose collective effort presents the most up-to-date research on these important issues. The range of techniques and theories represented here are applied across a broad spectrum of texts and cultural forms, extending from women's writing of the Renaissance and the fiction of George Sand to the relation between quiltmaking and nineteenth-century literary forms, the pornography of Georges Bataille, and the theories of Julia Kristeva. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 809.892 |
| LCCN: 85029904 |
| Series: Gender & Culture (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.9" W x 9.05" (0.80 lbs) 303 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Does gender have a poetics: What difference does gender make? How does it affect writing, reading, and the functions of text in society? The Poetics of Gender is a brilliant assembly of leading feminist critics whose collective effort presents the most up-to-date research on these important issues. The range of techniques and theories represented here are applied across a broad spectrum of texts and cultural forms, extending from women's writing of the Renaissance and the fiction of George Sand to the relation between quiltmaking and nineteenth-century literary forms, the pornography of Georges Bataille, and the theories of Julia Kristeva. |
Contributor Bio(s): Miller, Nancy K.: - Nancy Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY and co-editor of the Gender and Culture series. Her books include the landmark The Poetics of Gender (ed., Columbia UP, 1987), Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing (Columbia University Press, 1989), Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts (Routledge, 1991), Bequests and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death (Oxford UP, 1996), But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives (Columbia UP, 2002), Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory (co-editor, Columbia UP, 2011), and others. |