Practising Feminist Criticism: An IntroductionA companion volume to the textbook A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism (Harvester Wheatsheaf 1994), this book offers practical readings of literary and cultural texts, and shows how literary theory and feminist criticism can be applied to the main developments and debates within each approach. It provides comprehensive and systematic coverage of the main schools of thought with international coverage including Third World feminist criticism and Black feminism. |
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Myth criticism | 16 |
Marxistsocialist criticism | 34 |
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