Feminist criticism has come a long way in the last twenty years.
Its development has been rapid, its snowball progress picking up
elements of structuralism, deconstruction and psychoanalytic
criticism; just as rapidly it has been shedding its own early
theories and methodologies. Now it is a critical orthodoxy with its
own established canonical texts. Now is the time, then, to begin to
question that orthodoxy. In "Problems for Feminist Criticism" five
women critics seek to do that, in a spirit of enquiry whose central
point of focus is the literature for which feminist critics have
offered a re-reading.
By reference to a wide range of writers, from Milton to the
contemporary poet, with a strong emphasis on the nineteenth-century
novel, the contributors ask what we may be losing from literature
by adopting the feminist orthodoxy. Each chapter provides a survey
of feminist critical approaches to its subject and highlights the
inherent problems. The book frees the way forward for critics who
have found much that is stimulating and revealing in feminist
approaches to literature, but who find its proscriptiveness
potentially reductive. It shows how literature may have the
flexibility to absorb and benefit from new critical approaches,
whilst still retaining its own life, never quite to be contained in
criticism s theories and methodologies.
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