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Literary Criticism and Theory

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Freudian Slips

Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue

By Mary Gossy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

Working Time

Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays that explore literature, art, and contemporary culture and their connections to time and place

Wendy Wasserstein

By Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Michigan Modern Dramatists

A feminist theater scholar and critic sheds new light on the work of playwright Wendy Wasserstein
 

The Social Life of Criticism

Gender, Critical Writing, and the Politics of Belonging

By Kimberly J Stern
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Contends that gender politics were influential in the early development of literary criticism and the writings of female critics

Mammographies

The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives

By Mary K. DeShazer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine, Disability Studies

Uncovers the lived experience of breast cancer through autobiographical and photographic narratives

Fractured Borders

Reading Women's Cancer Literature

By Mary K. DeShazer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Literature and Science

Looks at the ways that literary artists have responded to women's cancer through poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, and environmental writing

Disability Theory

By Tobin Anthony Siebers
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies

The Unraveling Archive

Essays on Sylvia Plath

Edited by Anita Helle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, American Literature, American Studies

Fresh perspectives that provide new readings of the life and work of one of our most celebrated poets

Cultures of Modernism

Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schuler

By Cristanne Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Examines the influences of location on the literary achievements of three modernist women writers

Henry James at Work

Edited by Lyall Powers
By Theodora Bosanquet
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Memoir, Gender Studies

The delightful memoir by James's feisty and feminist secretary, with a biographical essay and excerpts from her diaries

Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture

Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea

By Marilynn Robin Desmond & Pamela Sheingorn
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

A broad multidisciplinary study that uses the Epistre Othea to examine the visual presentation of knowledge

Joyce/Foucault

Sexual Confessions

By Wolfgang Streit
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Modern Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies

Sheds new light on James Joyce's use of sexual motifs as cultural raw materials for Ulysses and other works

Abandoned Women

Rewriting the Classics in Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer

By Suzanne C. Hagedorn
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, European Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Sheds light on the complex web of allusions that link medieval authors to their literary predecessors

Stately Bodies

Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender

By Adriana Cavarero
Translated by Robert de Lucca & Deanna Shemek
Subjects: Gender Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself

Poetry in the Museums of Modernism

Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein

By Catherine E. Paul
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies

How modernist writers experienced the Louvre, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History-and how these museums influenced their writing

Anna Seghers

The Mythic Dimension

By Helen Fehervary
Subjects: German Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A fascinating study of one of the greatest German woman writers of the twentieth century

Class, Critics, and Shakespeare

Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars

By Sharon Kay O'Dair
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies

A challenging critique of academic culture and its blindspots

Married, Middlebrow, and Militant

Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel

By Teresa Lynn Mangum
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Examines the life and work of this daring nineteenth-century author and women's rights advocate

Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition

By Karen L. Kilcup
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Uncovers heretofore overlooked influences and connections in the evolution of Frost's poetry

Hearing Voices

Modern Drama and the Problem of Subjectivity

By John H. Lutterbie
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Modern drama and the radical possibilities of ethical listening

Ludic Feminism and After

Postmodernism, Desire, and Labor in Late Capitalism

By Teresa L. Ebert
Subjects: Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

A provocative and controversial challenge to postmodern academic feminism

Starting Over

Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique

By Judith Newton
Subjects: Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory

Explores the relationships among cultural criticism, materialist feminist criticism, and mainstream feminist work

A Poetics of Resistance

Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States

By Mary K. DeShazer
Subjects: Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory

A survey of the empowering poetry of politically active women in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States.

The In-Between of Writing

Experience and Experiment in the Work of Drabble, Duras, and Arendt

By Eleanor Honig Skoller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies

Examines works by three very different writers to explore the relation of experience to literary experiment

Narrative, Authority, and Law

By Robin West
Subjects: Law, Gender Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence
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