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Author Fetterley, Judith, 1938-

Title The resisting reader : a feminist approach to American fiction / Judith Fetterley
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1978

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 198 pages)
Contents Introduction: On the politics of literature -- Palpable designs: four American short stories: An American dream: "Rip Van Winkle" ; Growing up male in America: "I want to know why" ; Women beware science: "The birthmark" ; A rose for "A rose for Emily" -- A farewell to arms" Hemingway's "resentful cryptogram" -- The great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's droit de seigneur -- The Bostonians: Henry James's eternal triangle -- An American dream: "Hula, hula," said the witches
Summary Annotation. "Fetterley's questions are often so crucial, her observations repeatedly so acute, that they force us to ask how we avoided them in the past."--Women's Studies International Quarterly .". thoughtful, informed, and well written."--Choice
Analysis American fiction History and criticism Theory, etc
Feminism and literature United States History
Feminist fiction History and criticism
Reader-response criticism
Women in literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject American fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Feminism and literature -- United States -- History
Feminist fiction -- History and criticism
Reader-response criticism.
Women in literature.
American fiction -- History and criticism
Feminism and literature.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction
Feminism and literature
Feminist fiction
Reader-response criticism
Women in literature
Feminismus
Literaturwissenschaft
Prosa
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Feministische literatuurkritiek.
United States
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585001014
9780585001012
0253310784
9780253310781