Persuasive Fictions: Feminist Narrative and Critical Myth

by Anna Wilson and Anna Wilson

Challenges the current orthodoxy in feminist criticism and pedagogy that books change lives by reexamining key feminist texts that attempted to be instruments for both personal and social change in the lives of their readers. The book uses reception studies of writers from Mary Wollstonecraft to Marilyn French to show that feminists' faith in the power of written or filmic texts as principal means to social change has been misplaced. It emphasizes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838754821
• ISBN13: 9780838754825
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 161 Pages