The new feminist criticism: essays on women, literature and theory The new feminist criticism: essays on women, literature and theory

• Main Author: Carmen Rosa Caldas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2008-04-01
• Series: Ilha do Desterro
• Subjects: English Language; English
• Online Access: http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/9004

This book is a collection of eighteen major essays on
 feminist criticism, which is basically concerned with the
 literary representations of sexual difference and establishes
 gender as a fundamental category of literary analysis. According
 to Showalter, the assumptions of literary study have been totally
 modified in the last decade due to the impact of the feminist
 critical revolution. This important approach to literature has
 "opened a space for the authority of the woman critic that
 extends beyond the study of women's writing to the reappraisal
 of the whole body of texts" (p.3). This book is a collection of eighteen major essays on
 feminist criticism, which is basically concerned with the
 literary representations of sexual difference and establishes
 gender as a fundamental category of literary analysis. According
 to Showalter, the assumptions of literary study have been totally
 modified in the last decade due to the impact of the feminist
 critical revolution. This important approach to literature has
 "opened a space for the authority of the woman critic that
 extends beyond the study of women's writing to the reappraisal
 of the whole body of texts" (p.3).