1st Edition
Routledge Revivals: Literary Fat Ladies (1987) Rhetoric, Gender, Property
By Patricia Parker
Copyright 1987
288 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1987, the essays in this volume focus on questions of gender, property and power in the use of rhetoric and the practice of literary genres, and provide a historicised cultural critique. They analyse the links between rhetoric and property, but also representations of women as unruly, excessive, teleology-breaking figures — intermeshing with feminist theory in the wake of... Read more
Acknowledgments; 1 Retrospective Introduction 2 Literary Fat Ladies and the Generation of the Text 3 The Metaphorical Plot 4 Suspended Instruments: Lyrics and Power in the Bower of Bliss 5 Transfigurations: Shakespeare and Rhetoric 6 Motivated Rhetorics: Gender, Order, Rule 7 Rhetorics of Property: Exploration, Inventory, Blazon 8 The (Self-) Identity of the Literary Text: Property, Proper Place, and Proper Name in Wuthering Heights Coming Second: Woman’s Place; Notes; Index
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Patricia Parker
