The Poetics of Gender

By Nancy K. Miller

Book Overview

Does gender have a poetics: What difference does gender make? How does it affect writing, reading, and the functions of text in society? The Poetics of Gender is a brilliant assembly of leading feminist critics whose collective effort presents the most up-to-date research on these important issues. The range of techniques and theories represented here are applied across a broad spectrum of texts and cultural forms, extending from women's writing of the Renaissance and the fiction of George Sand to the relation between quiltmaking and nineteenth-century literary forms, the pornography of Georges Bataille, and the theories of Julia Kristeva.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231063113
• ISBN13: 9780231063111
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Again a Thoughtful Criticism of Women's Roles in Literature

Nancy K. Miller is best known for The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, 1722-1782, which is clearly not a book that passes unperceived (to paraphrase Peter Brooks of Yale). Here Miller takes on the role of women in a much larger timeline (roughly from the Renaissance through the 19th century), again with her unsentimental criticism. Her style is terse, often funny, and readable. After a thorough linear...