Author : Patricia Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131545131X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Routledge Revivals: Literary Fat Ladies (1987) by : Patricia Parker
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Literary Fat Ladies (1987) written by Patricia Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Freud, Lacan and Derrida. A wide variety of texts — from Genesis to Freud, by way of Shakespeare, Milton, Rousseau and Emily Brontë — are examined, held together by a concern for the entanglements of rhetorical questions of literary plotting, hierarchy, ideological framing and political consequence.