{"product_id":"literature-after-feminism-paperback","title":"Literature After Feminism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRita Felski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. \u003ci\u003eLiterature after Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e is the first work to comprehensively rebut such caricatures, while also offering a clear-eyed assessment of the relative merits of various feminist approaches to literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpelling out her main arguments clearly and succinctly, Rita Felski explains how feminism has changed the ways people read and think about literature. She organizes her book around four key questions: Do women and men read differently? How have feminist critics imagined the female author? What does plot have to do with gender? And what do feminists have to say about the relationship between literary and political value? Interweaving incisive commentary with literary examples, Felski advocates a double critical vision that can do justice to the social and political meanings of literature without dismissing or scanting the aesthetic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. \u003ci\u003eLiterature after Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e is the first work to comprehensively rebut such caricatures, while also offering a clear-eyed assessment of the relative merits of various feminist approaches to literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpelling out her main arguments clearly and succinctly, Rita Felski explains how feminism has changed the ways people read and think about literature. She organizes her book around four key questions: Do women and men read differently? How have feminist critics imagined the female author? What does plot have to do with gender? And what do feminists have to say about the relationship between literary and political value? Interweaving incisive commentary with literary examples, Felski advocates a double critical vision that can do justice to the social and political meanings of literature without dismissing or scanting the aesthetic.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRita Felski\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Gender of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDoing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.58 x 5.64 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47405753303218,"sku":"9780226241159","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/393831c5788a57f3ee9f7222774c7732.webp?v=1778191634","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/literature-after-feminism-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}