Feminist poetics : poiesis, performance, histories / Terry Threadgold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Threadgold, Terry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Australian literature.

Feminism and literature--Australia--History.

Feminism and literature.

Serial murders--Australia--Historiography.

Serial murders.

Women and literature--Australia--History.

Women and literature.

Aboriginal Australians--Historiography.

Aboriginal Australians.

Literature and history--Australia.

Literature and history.

Authorship--Sex differences.

Authorship.

Intertextuality.

Literary form.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular, feminine, academic subject learning to find her voice. The second half uses that differently disciplined voice to re-read the textual traces of the Governor murder stories, murders committed against white women and children by black men in Australia in 1900. This book is a feminist poetics for those who are engaged in the teaching of literacies

Contents:

Cover; Feminist Poetics: Poiesis, performance, histories; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Feminist poetics; METALANGUAGE AND REWRITING; SUBJECTIVITY, BODY, PERFORMATIVITY; TELLING INTERTEXTUAL HISTORIES; REWRITING LINGUISTICS; Chapter 2 The poetics of rewriting: Poiesis, transmission, discipleship?; KUHN AND PARADIGM CHANGE; NEWTON AND RHETORIC: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENRE AND SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC FICTIONS: MAKING NEWTON DIFFERENTLY; PERFORMING THE SCIENTIFIC BODY; FOUCAULT REWRITING THE DISCIPLINES; DE CERTEAU READING FOUCAULT REWRITING

ROLAND BARTHES AND THE SUBJECT OF READING AND WRITING READING FORMATIONS AND THE OUTSIDE OF DISCIPLINE; POIESIS AND DISCIPLESHIP; Chapter 3 Teresa de Lauretis: Sexing the subject of semiosis; TELLING (HIS)TORIES; FEMINIST FILM THEORY; IMAGING: THE PERCEPTION/SIGNIFICATION NEXUS; NARRATIVE AND DESIRE; SEXING THE SUBJECT OF SEMIOSIS; MEANING, HABIT AND SOCIAL CHANGE; HIGH AND POPULAR CULTURE; WHOSE FEMINIST POETICS NOW?; Chapter 4 Discourse, expressibility and things to do with Foucault; FOUCAULT AND DISCOURSE; FOUCAULT, LINGUISTICS AND THE VISIBLE (NON-DISCURSIVE)

INTERTEXTUALITY AND INTERDISCURSIVITY THE MICROPHYSICS OF POWER AND THE ETHICS OF THE SELF; THE OUTSIDE OF KNOWLEDGE; BUTLER AND DISCOURSE AS PERFORMATIVITY; Chapter 5 Rewriting linguistic poetics: The trace of the corporeal; LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL SEMIOTIC; REWRITING REGISTER; GENRE; HABITUS: CORPOREALITY AND THE TEXT; INTERTEXTUALITY AND THE TEXTUAL FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE AS EMBODIED PERFORMANCE; METALANGUAGE AND THE PROBLEM OF METASEMIOSIS; REWRITING THE LINGUISTIC SYSTEM; Chapter 6 Patriarchal contexts; HABERMAS: GENDERED THEORIES OF THE SOCIAL; DERRIDA AND THE SPEECH ACT

PERFORMING GENERIC VIOLENCE AND THE MAKING OF SEXUAL DIFFERENCE Chapter 7 Poiesis, performance, (his)tories: Black man, white woman, irresistible impulse; 'THE BODY ENACTS THE PAST...WHAT IS "LEARNED BY THE BODY" IS...SOMETHING THAT ONE IS' (BOURDIEU 1980/1990:73); FRAMING WHITE AUSTRALIA; NED KELLY, BUSH RANGING, THE DORA DORA MURDERS AND SANDAWARA; THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF MURDER; READING THE ARCHIVE; FEMINIST VOICES: OTHER STORIES; LEGAL FICTIONS; MEDIA, NATION AND NARRATION: 'THE THRILL OF HORROR'; RACE AND UNRULY WOMEN; THE MEANINGS OF PROTECTION

WAIF, WITCH, WHORE: WHITE WOMEN WHO MARRY BLACK MEN IRRESISTIBLE PASSION: READING AND WRITING THE OTHER; Chapter 8 The other side of discourse: Traces of bodies at work; KENEALLY: THE NEATNESS OF THE STRUCTURE; DISCOURSE, GENRE, DIALOGISM; CLUNE, KENEALLY, SCHEPISI: HUGE STABILITIES OF DISCOURSE; MRS FITZPATRICK: MAKING MEMORIES; HISTORY AND ABORIGINAL TEXTS: MUDROOROO'S DOIN WILDCAT; CODA: NARRATIVE, MEMORY, IDENTITY; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-215) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-32406-6

0-203-20620-7

1-134-97143-5

9780203206201

OCLC:

50900128