Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing
Nancy K Miller
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Description
What can reading for the gender of signature tell us about the act of reading as a poetics and politics? In Subject to Change Miller demonstrates the textual effects of female authorship in the production, reception, and circulation of women's writing. In the wake of Roland Barthes's famously Dead Author, Miller argues for the cultural vitality of feminist writing subjects.
Product Details
Price
$40.80
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publish Date
January 21, 1990
Pages
285
Dimensions
5.9 X 0.68 X 9.04 inches | 0.8 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780231066617
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Nancy Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY and co-editor of the Gender and Culture series. Her books include the landmark The Poetics of Gender (ed., Columbia UP, 1987), Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing (Columbia University Press, 1989), Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts (Routledge, 1991), Bequests and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death (Oxford UP, 1996), But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives (Columbia UP, 2002), Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory (co-editor, Columbia UP, 2011), and others.
Reviews
Find a critic with more flair and fastidiousness than Nancy K. Miller. Find an intelligence with greater elegance and shimmering subtlety. Whoever does so will have found a rare person indeed.