| Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing Contributor(s): Miller, Nancy K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231066619 ISBN-13: 9780231066617 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $33.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1990 Annotation: What can reading for the gender of signature tell us about the act of reading as a poetics and politics? In "Subject to Change" Miller demonstrates the textual effects of female authorship in the production, reception, and circulation of women's writing. In the wake of Roland Barthes's famously Dead Author, Miller argues for the cultural vitality of feminist writing subjects. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Gender and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.9" W x 9.04" (0.80 lbs) 285 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What can reading for the gender of signature tell us about the act of reading as a poetics and politics? In Subject to Change Miller demonstrates the textual effects of female authorship in the production, reception, and circulation of women's writing. In the wake of Roland Barthes's famously Dead Author, Miller argues for the cultural vitality of feminist writing subjects. |
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. |