1st Edition

Feminist Poetics Performance, Histories

By Terry Threadgold Copyright 1997
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular, feminine, academic subject learning to find her voice. The second half uses that differently disciplined voice to re-read the textual traces of the... Read more
Chapter 1 Feminist poetics; Chapter 2 The poetics of rewriting; Chapter 3 Teresa de Lauretis; Chapter 4 Discourse, expressibility and things to do with Foucault; Chapter 5 Rewriting linguistic poetics; Chapter 6 Patriarchal contexts; Chapter 7 Poiesis, performance, (his)tories; Chapter 8 The other side of discourse;

Biography

Threadgold, Terry

'Feminist Poetics makes a significant contribution to the development of feminist poetics. With its theoretical sophistication, analytical acumen, and wealth of materials, this book has a great deal to offer to scholars who are interested in critical theories and methodologies.' - in-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism

'This text is a welcome new direction for feminist theory and practice ...' - Frances Devlin-Glass, Social Semiotics