A Writing Halfway Between Theory and Fiction: Mediating Feminism from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth CenturyKönigshausen & Neumann, 2007 - 306 стор. "This book is focused on the surprisingly large number of feminist women writers in literary history who use different genres for their feminist ideas while subverting or transgressing established boundaries between fictional and theoretical writing. In particular, texts by such diverse authors as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Mary Robinson, Harriet Martineau, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf, the French Feminists Hélène Cixous and Monique Wittig, Margaret Cavendish, and Michèle Roberts are analysed. This chronological in-depth reading of feminist texts is based on the interrelation of content, genre and discourse. The study provides the first analysis of the phenomenon of the gendering of genre and feminists' troubled involvement in "theory" as well as "literature". In this way, key questions concerning the emergence of feminism during the last four hundred years are presented in a new and revealing light; e.g., for what reason did Mary Wollstonecraft not only write her famous feminist treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but also a novel in which she tests the arguments of her theoretical treatise by means of fiction? What is the significance of Virginia Woolf?s "Novel-Essay" The Pargiters, which seeks to connect theoretical and fictional parts by juxtaposing them? How can the mixture of genres be interpreted which Catherine Clément attributes to the texts of Hélène Cixous as a "writing halfway between theory and fiction?'--Back cover. |
Зміст
Mary Wollstonecraft | 21 |
Mary Hays | 53 |
Morally as well as intellectually competent to deal with the woman | 93 |
The Bible of the Womans Movement? Olive Schreiners feminist | 125 |
Virginia Woolfs experiments | 159 |
Hélène Cixous | 195 |
Margaret Cavendish | 233 |
Who Cares about Theory? Conclusion and Outlook | 265 |
Works Cited | 285 |
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Загальні терміни та фрази
African Farm allegory analysis androgyny approach argues authority becomes clear Blazing World Cavendish character Cixous Cixous's combination connection contrast criticises criticism Deerbrook demands écriture féminine emotional emphasises essay essentialist example experience fact False Friend femi feminine feminism feminist concerns feminist ideas feminist texts feminist theory feminist writers gender roles genres and discourses Guérillères Harriet Martineau Hays Hays's Hélène Cixous illustration issues language Lyndall Lyndall's male Margaret Margaret Cavendish Maria marriage Martineau Mary Robinson Mary Wollstonecraft masculine Monique Wittig moral nature nist novel Orlando Pargiters patriarchal phallogocentrism philosophical polemic political position problems protagonist proto-feminist Querelle question rational reader regarded rhetorical Robinson Room of One's Schreiner Schreiner's sensibility sexual Sociable Letters social society sphere story strategies textual thematised theoretical discourses theoretical texts theory and fiction Three Guineas tion topics treatise truth Vindication Virginia Woolf voice Whereas Wittig Woman and Labour women writers Worlds Olio writing Wrongs