TY - BOOK AU - Finke,Laurie A. TI - Feminist Theory, Women's Writing T2 - Reading Women Writing SN - 9781501726255 AV - HQ1190 .F565 1992eb U1 - 305.42/01 20 PY - 2018///] CY - Ithaca, NY : PB - Cornell University Press, KW - Feminism and literature KW - Feminist theory KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. A Powerful Infidel Heteroglossia: Toward a Feminist Theory of Complexity --; 2. The Rhetoric of Desire in the Courtly Lyric --; 3. The Grotesque Mystical Body: Representing the Woman Writer --; 4. Style as Noise: Identity and Ideology in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman --; 5. Theories of Value and the Dialogics of Culture --; Afterword: From Text to Work --; Bibliography --; Index; Open Access N2 - In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical context and the larger framework of current theory concerning language, representation, subjectivity, and value UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501726255 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781501726255.jpg ER -