Women, reading, Kroetsch : telling the difference / Susan Rudy Dorscht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudy Dorscht, Susan Arlene, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kroetsch, Robert, 1927-2011--Criticism and interpretation.

Kroetsch, Robert.

Feminism and literature--Canada.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--Canada.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are Exiles to Completed Field Notes. Other chapters self-consciously examine the history and possibility of feminist deconstruction and feminist readings of Kroetsch’s writing by analyzing Kroetsch, Derrida, and Freud on subjectivity and sexuality; Neuman, Hutcheon, and van Herk on Kroetsch. As such, the book speaks out of and about a number of contemporary theoretical discourses, including particular positions within Canadian literary criticism, feminism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism. Written by a woman reader whose theoretical and methodological orientations are both feminist and poststructuralist, Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference problematizes notions of writing, reading, gender, sexuality, and subjectivity in and through Robert Kroetsch’s writings. In this critical study of one writer’s work the author also challenges the traditionally subservient relationship of reader to text and so empowers the feminist reader as well as, if not rather than, the male writer.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Women, Reading, Kroetsch; PART ONE: Reading Woman; PART TWO: Reading Kroetsch; In/Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-130) and index.

ISBN:

9786613811431

9781554587773

1554587778

9781282233690

1282233696

9780889206243

0889206244

OCLC:

243586818