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Gender, Genre & Narrative Pleasure (RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature)
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Paperback. Responding to a fundamental challenge from feminism, a primary objective of this book is to propose that all narrative and its reading are intrinsically inflected by sexual politics. Various approaches represented here demonstrate problems of confronting the gendered pleasures of reading. Editor(s): Longhurst, Derek. Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 232 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time the field could have been described with reasonable accuracy by two traditions: one that analyzed the production and distribution of popular fiction as commodities; and one whose proponents regarded popular fiction as the negative which offered definition to the exposure of the positive - the ‘great’ canonic literary tradition. Generally, then, popular fictions were to be ‘evaluated’ according to the institutionalized norms which had been established as common sense practice around literary studies. The decade of the 1970s, however ... Read more
Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time the field could have been described with reasonable accuracy by two traditions: one that analyzed the production and distribution of popular fiction as commodities; and one whose proponents regarded popular fiction as the negative which offered definition to the exposure of the positive - the ‘great’ canonic literary tradition. Generally, then, popular fictions were to be ‘evaluated’ according to the institutionalized norms which had been established as common sense practice around literary studies. The decade of the 1970s, however ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Routledge
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
Condition
New
Weight
371g
Number of Pages
4
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415752343
SKU
V9780415752343
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About
Derek Longhurst
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