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- catalog abstract ""This book argues for putting practices of reading at the center of a revitalized concept of post-modernism. Proposing that reading existing texts and recombining available images are the paradigmatic activities of contemporary cultural and political life, it analyzes the work of feminist novelists Kathy Acker and Angela Carter. Both writers' novels borrow heavily from other authors, and in doing so they offer strategies for a politically committed rereading of literary history and its interaction with the popular imagination." "This study situates Carter's works from the 1970s and Acker's from the 1980s in relation to the political, economic, and cultural discourses commonly circulating during their day. In Carter's case, the immediate context is the recession-aggravated crisis of the British welfare state and of postimperial national identity; and in Acker's, the swallowing-up of oppositional identities and rhetoric by American capitalism during the heyday of "revolutionary" neoconservatism. Such a historicized approach allows a sense of how small-scale, context-specific tactics of reinterpretation and re-use of language - of the sort theorized by Michel de Certeau - survive and indeed thrive within what has often previously been viewed as the politically indifferent sphere of postmodern culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12344900.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""This book argues for putting practices of reading at the center of a revitalized concept of post-modernism. Proposing that reading existing texts and recombining available images are the paradigmatic activities of contemporary cultural and political life, it analyzes the work of feminist novelists Kathy Acker and Angela Carter. Both writers' novels borrow heavily from other authors, and in doing so they offer strategies for a politically committed rereading of literary history and its interaction with the popular imagination."".
- catalog description ""This study situates Carter's works from the 1970s and Acker's from the 1980s in relation to the political, economic, and cultural discourses commonly circulating during their day. In Carter's case, the immediate context is the recession-aggravated crisis of the British welfare state and of postimperial national identity; and in Acker's, the swallowing-up of oppositional identities and rhetoric by American capitalism during the heyday of "revolutionary" neoconservatism.".
- catalog description "1. A Politicized Postmodernism: Feminist Reading Tactics -- 2. Kathy Acker's Unreasonable Texts -- 3. Angela Carter's War of Real Dreams -- 4. Reading Feminism's Pornography Conflict -- Epilogue: Readers, Disciplinarity, and Social Practices.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217) and index.".
- catalog description "Such a historicized approach allows a sense of how small-scale, context-specific tactics of reinterpretation and re-use of language - of the sort theorized by Michel de Certeau - survive and indeed thrive within what has often previously been viewed as the politically indifferent sphere of postmodern culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "223 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Tactical readings.".
- catalog identifier "0838754872 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tactical readings.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lewisburg, [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Tactical readings.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813/.54099287 21".
- catalog subject "Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Feminism and literature English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Feminist fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Feminist fiction, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS3551.C44 Z8 2002".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism (Literature) England.".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism (Literature) English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism (Literature) United States.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature English-speaking countries History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. A Politicized Postmodernism: Feminist Reading Tactics -- 2. Kathy Acker's Unreasonable Texts -- 3. Angela Carter's War of Real Dreams -- 4. Reading Feminism's Pornography Conflict -- Epilogue: Readers, Disciplinarity, and Social Practices.".
- catalog title "Tactical readings : feminist postmodernism in the novels of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter / Nicola Pitchford.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".