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Subject to Change - (Gender and Culture) by Nancy K Miller (Paperback)
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- What can reading for the gender of signature tell us about the act of reading as a poetics and politics?
- Author(s): Nancy K Miller
- 285 Pages
- Social Science, Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Series Name: Gender and Culture
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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.
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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 Quotes
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.