{"product_id":"the-intimate-critique-9780822312857","title":"The Intimate Critique","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Intimate Critique\u003c\/i\u003e marks the coming out of a new critical genre, sure to generate controversy, pleasure, rage, support, disbelief, acclaim (i.e., strong reactions!) among its readers.\"—Alice Kaplan, author of \u003ci\u003eFrench Lessons: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Grouped together, these very different essays raise and respond to a question that feminist theorists continue to ask—about the extent to which individual experience and self-expression may be read as representative.\"—Rachel M. Brownstein, author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in Novels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book goes a long way toward breathing life into literary criticism, advancing the necessary effort to write about it in a personal, engaged, and interesting manner.\"—G. Douglas Atkins, University of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, and Francis Murphy Zauhar 1\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Muse-ings on Genre, Autobiography, Narrative: Formative Strategies \u003cbr\u003e Border Crossing as Method and Motif in Contemporary American Writing, or, How Freud Helped Me Case the Joint \/ Diane P. Freedman 13\u003cbr\u003e Me and My Shadow \/ Jane Tompkins 23\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Literary Darwinism: Women's Voices and Critical Discourse \/ Olivia Frey 41\u003cbr\u003e \"Everyday Life\": My Sojourn at Parchman Farm \/ Cheryl B. Torsney 67\u003cbr\u003e Excerpts from Letters to Friends \/ Susan Koppelman 75\u003cbr\u003e Social Circles: Being a Report on J. Hills Miller's Campus Visitation \/ Linda R. Robertson 81\u003cbr\u003e Touchstones and Bedrocks: Learning the Stories We Need \/ Victoria Ekanger 93\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Critical Confessions \u003cbr\u003e Creative Voices: Women Reading and Women's Writing \/ Frances Murphy Zauhar 103\u003cbr\u003e Breaking Silence: \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Shirley Nelson Garner 117\u003cbr\u003e Different Silences \/ Traise Yamamoto 127\u003cbr\u003e \"What's in a Name?\": Some Meanings of Blackness \/ Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 135\u003cbr\u003e Poetry and the Age: \"A Girl in a Library\" to Randall Jarrell \/ Sandra M. Brown 151\u003cbr\u003e My Friend, Joyce Carol Oates \/ Brenda Daly 163\u003cbr\u003e Somebody Must Say These Things: An Essay for My Mother \/ Melody Graulich 175\u003cbr\u003e The Scarlet Brewer and the Voice of the Colonized \/ Shirley Geok-lin Lim 191\u003cbr\u003e Dividing Fences \/ Carol S. Taylor 197\u003cbr\u003e What Do Women \u003ci\u003eReally\u003c\/i\u003e Mean? Thoughts on Women's Diaries and Lives \/ Suzanne Bunkers 207\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Autobiographical Literary Criticism \u003cbr\u003e Between the Medusa and the Abyss: Reading \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, Reading Myself \/ Ellen Brown 225\u003cbr\u003e Rereading \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, Rereading Myself \/ Peter Carlton 237\u003cbr\u003e The Crippling of the Third World: Shiva Naipaul's Heritage \/ Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton 225\u003cbr\u003e Penelope's Web \/ Gail Griffin 255\u003cbr\u003e \"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around!\": Reading the \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e of Frederick Douglass \/ Dolan Hubbard 265\u003cbr\u003e Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Me: A Duography \/ Kendall 273\u003cbr\u003e In Between Abject and Object: The Mourning Sickness of the Expectant Mother, or, Three Movements of the Blues in B Minor \/ Dana Beckelman 283\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLa Ronde\u003c\/i\u003e of Children and Mothers \/ Julia Balen 293\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 303\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 309\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406012981591,"sku":"9780822312857","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822312857.jpg?v=1730494240","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-intimate-critique-9780822312857","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}