Death's door modern dying and the ways we grieve
Main Author: | Gilbert, Sandra M. |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
W.W. Norton,
c2006.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Physical Description: |
xxv, 580 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 464-553) and index. |
ISBN: |
0393051315 |
Author Notes: |
Although Gilbert and Gubar's ideas have been very influential, many critics, particularly poststructuralists, have taken issue with them. For Gilbert and Gubar, a woman writer is by definition angry, and her text will express that anger, albeit in disguised or distorted form. Reading hinges on knowing the sex of the author, rather than on a careful analysis of the text itself and the multivalency of its language. Gilbert and Gubar's work is part of a debate about essentialist and antiessentialist feminist theories, which has addressed issues like "the signature" (the significance of knowledge about the author and authorial intentions) and gendered expression in general. (Bowker Author Biography) |