Routledge Revivals: Literary Fat Ladies (1987)
Author | : Patricia Parker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2018-04-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 1138212091 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781138212091 |
Rating | : 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: First published in 1987, the essays in this volume focus on questions of gender, property and power in the use of rhetoric and the practice of literary genres, and provide a historicised cultural critique. They analyse the links between rhetoric and property, but also representations of women as unruly, excessive, teleology-breaking figures -- intermeshing with feminist theory in the wake of Freud, Lacan and Derrida. A wide variety of texts -- from Genesis to Freud, by way of Shakespeare, Milton, Rousseau and Emily Brontë -- are examined, held together by a concern for the entanglements of rhetorical questions of literary plotting, hierarchy, ideological framing and political consequence.