Art & Anger: Reading Like A Woman
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Book: Poor
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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A landmark work of feminist literary criticism, Art & Anger: Reading Like a Woman presents a bold and impassioned series of essays that argue for a radical reexamination of the literary canon through a distinctly feminist lens. Jane Marcus champions overlooked and undervalued women writers — including Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Sylvia Townsend Warner — illustrating how their work has been systematically marginalized by patriarchal critical traditions. Written with intellectual rigor and fierce conviction, the collection instructs readers to approach literature not as passive consumers but as politically engaged interpreters, attuned to the gendered dynamics of power embedded in texts. Marcus uncovers the ways in which anger, long dismissed as unbecoming in women writers, is in fact a vital and transformative artistic force. The result is a provocative and enduring contribution to feminist scholarship that challenges both the academy and the general reader to reconsider who gets to define literary greatness.
Author: Jane Marcus
Format: Paperback
Published: 1988, Ohio State University Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Poor
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. One tear on front binding near spine - held together with tape inside.
A landmark work of feminist literary criticism, Art & Anger: Reading Like a Woman presents a bold and impassioned series of essays that argue for a radical reexamination of the literary canon through a distinctly feminist lens. Jane Marcus champions overlooked and undervalued women writers — including Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Sylvia Townsend Warner — illustrating how their work has been systematically marginalized by patriarchal critical traditions. Written with intellectual rigor and fierce conviction, the collection instructs readers to approach literature not as passive consumers but as politically engaged interpreters, attuned to the gendered dynamics of power embedded in texts. Marcus uncovers the ways in which anger, long dismissed as unbecoming in women writers, is in fact a vital and transformative artistic force. The result is a provocative and enduring contribution to feminist scholarship that challenges both the academy and the general reader to reconsider who gets to define literary greatness.