An introduction to feminist literary criticism which emphasises the practical issues of applying these often wide-ranging theories to particular texts. It analyzes in turn several schools of feminist thought, including gynocriticism, authentic realism and Marxism. The focus of this book is on practice and analysis, providing an accessible textbook for students. This edition includes two chapters on lesbian feminist theory and post-colonialism.

Feminist Readings: An Introduction to Feminist Literature (2nd Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Mills, Sara

Pearce,Lynne

United States

PRENTICE/HALL

How to Examine a Thesis

· What is involved in examining a research-based higher degree?  · What are the roles of the internal and external examiners? · What are the hidden agendas of higher degree examining? · What are the essential ingredients of a ‘good’ viva? This handbook offers a revealing insight into the written – and unwritten – rules and regulations of higher degree examination in the United Kingdom today. Addressed directly to the examiners, it contains a step-by-step account of the different stages of the examination process in order to provide an insiders’ guide into what to expect before, during and after the oral examination. How to Examine a Thesis covers important issues such as: · The power-relations between the two (or more) examiners · Hidden agendas and foul play · Examples of guidelines and regulations across different institutions · Advice on MPhil as well as doctoral examinations This book is essential reading for all higher degree examiners but is also of importance to those supervising, and studying for, higher degrees. Moreover, although the book focuses primarily on current practices in the United Kingdom, comparisons are drawn with continental Europe, Australia and the United States. Research degree examiners, supervisors and students throughout the world will find the book of considerable interest.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Open University Press

· What is involved in examining a research-based higher degree? · What are the roles of the internal and external examiners? · What are the hidden agendas of higher degree examining? · What are the essential ingredients of a ‘good’ viva?
 This handbook offers a revealing insight into the written – and unwritten – rules and regulations of higher degree examination in the United Kingdom today. Addressed directly to the examiners, it contains a step-by-step account of the different stages of the examination process in order to provide an insiders’ guide into what to expect before, during and after the oral examination.
 How to Examine a Thesis covers important issues such as: · The power-relations between the two (or more) examiners · Hidden agendas and foul play · Examples of guidelines and regulations across different institutions · Advice on MPhil as well as doctoral examinations
 This book is essential reading for all higher degree examiners but is also of importance to those supervising, and studying for, higher degrees. Moreover, although the book focuses primarily on current practices in the United Kingdom, comparisons are drawn with continental Europe, Australia and the United States. Research degree examiners, supervisors and students throughout the world will find the book of considerable interest.

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Feminism and the Politics of Reading

"Feminism and the Politics of Reading" is the first major work to theorize the processes and practices of reading within a gendered context. Looking at what it is to be a self-conscious "feminist reader," and at what happens when that feminism is "off-duty," Lynne Pearce engages with a wide range of literary and visual texts to explore the complex personal and political implications of what we do every time we read.

British & Irish

Hodder Education Publishers

This work theorizes the processes and practices of reading within a gendered context. Looking at what it is to be a self-conscious feminist reader and at what happens when feminism is off-duty, the author explores the personal and political implications of what one does each time one reads.

The Rhetorics of Feminism (Transformations)

Is it possible that changes in rhetorical practice could alter not just how thought is expressed, but also how it is made? Through a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis of contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to the popular journalism of Naomi Wolf and Germaine Greer - Lynne Pearce demonstrates how feminist thought is created as well as communicated through the frameworks in which it is presented. By linking rhetorical innovation with feminist epistemology in such a direct way, this is a book that will be of immense methodological as well as theoretical interest to readers, providing valuable insight into the often mysterious processes of conception and composition.

The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press (Transformations)

History & Criticism

Routledge

Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah’s concept of ‘diaspora space’, the authors argue that Manchester is, and always has been, a quintessentially migrant city to which workers of all nationalities and cultures have been drawn since its origins in the cotton trade and the expansion of the British Empire. This colonial legacy – and the inequalities upon which it turns – is a recurrent motif in the texts and poetry performances of the contemporary Mancunian writers featured here, many of them members of the city’s long-established African, African-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, Irish and Jewish diasporic communities. By turning the spotlight on Manchester’s rich, yet under-represented, literary tradition in this way, Postcolonial Manchester also argues for the devolution of the canon of English Literature and, in particular, recognition for contemporary black and Asian literary culture outside of London.

Postcolonial Manchester: Diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture

Manchester University Press

Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature & Film

"Romance" is one of the most enduring of the "grand narratives". The impulse to consume those cultural constructions otherwise known as love stories is seemingly timeless and certainly insatiable. But in these post-colonial, post-modern times, how is the conventional love story faring? And what does its continuing appeal tell us about the culture in which we live? In this collection, the contributors consider the ways in which the codes and conventions of traditional romance, as a genre, are being rewritten and subverted in contemporary literature and film. Romance, it seems, is no longer an agent of cultural orthodoxy, perpetuating the institutions of monogamy, the family, heterosexuality and marriage - it can also, at least to some extent, destabilize those orthodoxies, and call them into quesstion, through burlesque, explicitly "feminist" texts, queer readings and so on. Romance, the contributors argue, is a category under stress. Can the love story - in fiction and in film - survive in an age of postmodernism, AIDS and queer theory? And if it can, what (utopian) political agenda might it serve?

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Pluto Press

Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years.  Faced with the challenge of writing a cultural history for what is commonly understood to be one of lifes most universal, a-historical and cross-cultural phenomena, Lynne Pearce has invoked the concept of the gift to calculate loves added value at different cultural/historical moments. Building upon those philosophical traditions which have argued for the powerfully transformative nature of romantic love, Pearce shows how in the history of literature lovers have utilized its spark to change not only themselves, but also their worlds, through acts of creativity and heroism. The gift of love ranges from the simple gift of a name in the seventeenth century, through notions of immortality, self-sacrifice and selfhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through to the liberating temporal and spatial dislocations of the postmodern age. The opening chapter, The Alchemy of Love, also undertakes an in-depth engagement of the changing nature, and meaning, of romantic love.  Providing a judicious blend of close reading and cultural history, Romance Writing will be essential reading for undergraduate students as well as postgraduates and scholars working in the field, while also offering much of interest to the general reader.

Romance Writing (Cultural History of Literature)

Polity

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Feminist Readings: An Introduction to Feminist Literature (2nd Edition)

How to Examine a Thesis

How to Examine a Thesis

Feminism and the Politics of Reading

Feminism and the Politics of Reading

The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press (Transformations)

The Rhetorics of Feminism (Transformations)

Postcolonial Manchester: Diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture

Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature & Film

Romance Writing (Cultural History of Literature)