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Marianne Moore : a collection of critical essays
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ISBN: 0135560438 9780135560433 Year: 1969 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs Prentice-Hall

Engendering the subject : gender and self-representation in contemporary women's fiction.
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ISBN: 0791407284 0791407276 9780791407271 9780791407288 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) State university of New York press

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Robinson sets up a dialogue between feminist critical theory and contemporary women's fiction in order to argue for a new way of reading the specificity of women's writing. Through theoretically informed readings of novels by Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, and Gayl Jones, the author argues that female subjectivity is engendered in discourse through the woman writer's strategic engagement in representational systems that rely on a singular figure of Woman for coherence. Through this engagement, women's self-representation emerges as a process through which women take up multiple and contradictory positions in relation to different hegemonic discursive systems, and through which they engender themselves as subjects. Finally, Engendering the Subject suggests how women's fiction can provide a model for a feminist practice of reading that would simultaneously work against the historical containment of Woman, and for the empowerment of women as subjects of cultural practices.

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Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- Thematology --- Lessing, Doris --- Carter, Angela --- Jones, Gayl --- English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist fiction, English --- Gender identity in literature. --- Psychological fiction, English --- Self in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Women and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Gender identity in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Self in literature --- History and criticism --- Lessing, Doris May, --- Carter, Angela, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature --- Women authors&delete& --- Lessing, Doris, --- Lesing, Dorisŭ, --- Лессинг, Дорис, --- לסינג, דוריס, --- Tayler, Doris May, --- Somers, Jane, --- Stalker, Angela Olive, --- Carter, Angela Olive, --- Carter, Angela Olive Stalker, --- Stalker, Angela Olive --- Carter, Angela Olive --- Carter, Angela Olive Stalker --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- Psychological fiction, English - History and criticism --- Feminist fiction, English - History and criticism --- Feminism and literature - History - 20th century --- Women and literature - History - 20th century --- Lessing, Doris, - 1919-2013 - Criticism and interpretation --- Carter, Angela, - 1940- - Criticism and interpretation. --- Jones, Gayl - Criticism and interpretation --- Lessing, Doris, - 1919-2013 --- Carter, Angela, - 1940 --- -Jones, Gayl

Alice Walker
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ISBN: 0805776427 0805738223 9780805776423 Year: 1992 Volume: TUSAS 596 Publisher: New York Toronto New York Twayne Publishers Macmillan Canada Macmillan International

Twentieth-century women novelists : feminist theory into practice.
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ISBN: 0333683463 0333683455 9780333683453 Year: 2001 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave

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This provocative, lively book discusses two of the most significant influences on writing and thinking in the twentieth century: women novelists and feminist theory. It demonstrates, in an accessible but imaginative manner, ways of reading women's novels alongside work by feminist theorists. Each chapter situates a small number of theoretical texts in their intellectual context and then links them with a widely taught novel to produce fresh interpretations. The novels and theorists represent examples of extremely significant, but also pedagogically useful feminist writing this century.

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