905 resultados para Literary criticism y cultural criticism
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"Facts and Fictions: Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Critique, 1968-2012" is a critical history of the unfolding of feminist literary study in the US academy. It contributes to current scholarly efforts to revisit the 1970s by reconsidering often-repeated narratives about the critical naivety of feminist literary criticism in its initial articulation. As the story now goes, many of the most prominent feminist thinkers of the period engaged in unsophisticated literary analysis by conflating lived social reality with textual representation when they read works of literature as documentary evidence of real life. As a result, the work of these "bad critics," particularly Kate Millett and Andrea Dworkin, has not been fully accounted for in literary critical terms.
This dissertation returns to Dworkin and Millett's work to argue for a different history of feminist literary criticism. Rather than dismiss their work for its conflation of fact and fiction, I pay attention to the complexity at the heart of it, yielding a new perspective on the history and persistence of the struggle to use literary texts for feminist political ends. Dworkin and Millett established the centrality of reality and representation to the feminist canon debates of "the long 1970s," the sex wars of the 1980s, and the more recent feminist turn to memoir. I read these productive periods in feminist literary criticism from 1968 to 2012 through their varied commitment to literary works.
Chapter One begins with Millett, who de-aestheticized male-authored texts to treat patriarchal literature in relation to culture and ideology. Her mode of literary interpretation was so far afield from the established methods of New Criticism that she was not understood as a literary critic. She was repudiated in the feminist literary criticism that followed her and sought sympathetic methods for reading women's writing. In that decade, the subject of Chapter Two, feminist literary critics began to judge texts on the basis of their ability to accurately depict the reality of women's experiences.
Their vision of the relationship between life and fiction shaped arguments about pornography during the sex wars of the 1980s, the subject of Chapter Three. In this context, Dworkin was feminism's "bad critic." I focus on the literary critical elements of Dworkin's theories of pornographic representation and align her with Millett as a miscategorized literary critic. In the decades following the sex wars, many of the key feminist literary critics of the founding generation (including Dworkin, Jane Gallop, Carolyn Heilbrun, and Millett) wrote memoirs that recounted, largely in experiential terms, the history this dissertation examines. Chapter Four considers the story these memoirists told about the rise and fall of feminist literary criticism. I close with an epilogue on the place of literature in a feminist critical enterprise that has shifted toward privileging theory.
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The charge of »Ressentiment« can in today's world – less from traditionally conservative quarters than from the neo-positivist discourses of particular forms of liberalism – be used to undermine the argumentative credibility of political opponents, dissidents and those who call for greater »justice«. The essays in this volume draw on the broad spectrum of cultural discourse on »Ressentiment«, both in historical and contemporary contexts. Starting with its conceptual genesis, the essays also show contemporary nuances of »Ressentiment« as well as its influence on aesthetic and literary discourse in the 20th century.
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Essay on literary criticism.
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La pregunta acerca de la relación entre escritura moderna, ligada a una firma, a una imagen de autor, y el acervo folklórico con el que dialoga, aún comporta una exigencia crítica en torno a la obra de Violeta Parra. La relación entre Décimas autobiográficas y Cantos folklóricos chilenos, desde una perspectiva que pone en el centro la escritura como experiencia, puede cuestionar el aspecto teleológico con que se ha leído ese diálogo. El punto de análisis será esa zona inestable de las huellas de escritura, la operación sobre el acervo colectivo. El cuerpo, como ausencia y metáfora, es uno de los puntos de intensidad donde esas huellas textuales de la tradición pugnan por cobrar sentido; pero esos espacios, para usar una palabra parriana, 'mudan' constantemente
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La pregunta acerca de la relación entre escritura moderna, ligada a una firma, a una imagen de autor, y el acervo folklórico con el que dialoga, aún comporta una exigencia crítica en torno a la obra de Violeta Parra. La relación entre Décimas autobiográficas y Cantos folklóricos chilenos, desde una perspectiva que pone en el centro la escritura como experiencia, puede cuestionar el aspecto teleológico con que se ha leído ese diálogo. El punto de análisis será esa zona inestable de las huellas de escritura, la operación sobre el acervo colectivo. El cuerpo, como ausencia y metáfora, es uno de los puntos de intensidad donde esas huellas textuales de la tradición pugnan por cobrar sentido; pero esos espacios, para usar una palabra parriana, 'mudan' constantemente
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La pregunta acerca de la relación entre escritura moderna, ligada a una firma, a una imagen de autor, y el acervo folklórico con el que dialoga, aún comporta una exigencia crítica en torno a la obra de Violeta Parra. La relación entre Décimas autobiográficas y Cantos folklóricos chilenos, desde una perspectiva que pone en el centro la escritura como experiencia, puede cuestionar el aspecto teleológico con que se ha leído ese diálogo. El punto de análisis será esa zona inestable de las huellas de escritura, la operación sobre el acervo colectivo. El cuerpo, como ausencia y metáfora, es uno de los puntos de intensidad donde esas huellas textuales de la tradición pugnan por cobrar sentido; pero esos espacios, para usar una palabra parriana, 'mudan' constantemente
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La pregunta acerca de la relación entre escritura moderna, ligada a una firma, a una imagen de autor, y el acervo folklórico con el que dialoga, aún comporta una exigencia crítica en torno a la obra de Violeta Parra. La relación entre Décimas autobiográficas y Cantos folklóricos chilenos, desde una perspectiva que pone en el centro la escritura como experiencia, puede cuestionar el aspecto teleológico con que se ha leído ese diálogo. El punto de análisis será esa zona inestable de las huellas de escritura, la operación sobre el acervo colectivo. El cuerpo, como ausencia y metáfora, es uno de los puntos de intensidad donde esas huellas textuales de la tradición pugnan por cobrar sentido; pero esos espacios, para usar una palabra parriana, 'mudan' constantemente
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Includes index.
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"This book aims to give organic and systematic expression to the working principles of literary criticism ... It may, indeed, be viewed as an extended commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle."--Pref.
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Mode of access: Internet.
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Mode of access: Internet.
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Mode of access: Internet.