Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing (Gender and Culture Series) - Softcover

Miller, Nancy K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231066619 ISBN 13: 9780231066617

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Subject to Change 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. Full description

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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.

Review:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0231066619
• ISBN 13: 9780231066617
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300