東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

From Princeton to paradise: Women's ...

University of Pennsylvania.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

From Princeton to paradise: Women's reading in academic and popular culture.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From Princeton to paradise: Women's reading in academic and popular culture./
Author:	Ivy, Anna S.
Description:	218 p.
Notes:	Adviser: James English.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-09A.
Subject:	Literature, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3328586
ISBN:	9780549804703

From Princeton to paradise: Women's reading in academic and popular culture.
Ivy, Anna S.

From Princeton to paradise: Women's reading in academic and popular culture. - 218 p.

Adviser: James English.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2008.

This is a study of the relationship between popular women's culture and academic feminist criticism and thus between two very different and yet mutually dependent constructions of "women's reading." In looking at a variety of indicators of contemporary women's reading practice in and out of the academy---from examples of successful women's fiction in a range of categories, to the reading groups and reading guides that are geared primarily toward women, to the vogue for autobiographical criticism among female and feminist academics---I explore the tension between academic or critical reading and "reading for pleasure" and demonstrate that while efforts on both sides to distinguish the scholarly from the popular have made for some interesting and high-profile debates, they have also woven themselves more subtly into the very fabric of contemporary reading culture. My dissertation treats contemporary women's reading as a collection of practices that variously support and cut across one another, and defines "women's culture" itself as something that is produced, marketed, consumed and re-circulated on the literary field through a host of different mechanisms, not least of which is the contemporary novel, boosted by a "pro-novel" discourse that casts novel-reading as itself a form of consciousness-raising. Ultimately, I suggest that reading serves as one of the primary vehicles of "women's culture" today, helping to sustain a fantasy of collectivity even while strict notions of individual identification and personal growth govern popular reading itself.

ISBN: 9780549804703Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018152
Literature, General.

From Princeton to paradise: Women's reading in academic and popular culture.
LDR:02454nam 2200277 a 45 001 857686
005 20100712
008 100712s2008 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9780549804703
035 $a (UMI)AAI3328586
035 $a AAI3328586
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Ivy, Anna S. $3 1024660
245 1 0 $a From Princeton to paradise: Women's reading in academic and popular culture.
300 $a 218 p.
500 $a Adviser: James English.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-09, Section: A, page: 3534.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2008.
520 $a This is a study of the relationship between popular women's culture and academic feminist criticism and thus between two very different and yet mutually dependent constructions of "women's reading." In looking at a variety of indicators of contemporary women's reading practice in and out of the academy---from examples of successful women's fiction in a range of categories, to the reading groups and reading guides that are geared primarily toward women, to the vogue for autobiographical criticism among female and feminist academics---I explore the tension between academic or critical reading and "reading for pleasure" and demonstrate that while efforts on both sides to distinguish the scholarly from the popular have made for some interesting and high-profile debates, they have also woven themselves more subtly into the very fabric of contemporary reading culture. My dissertation treats contemporary women's reading as a collection of practices that variously support and cut across one another, and defines "women's culture" itself as something that is produced, marketed, consumed and re-circulated on the literary field through a host of different mechanisms, not least of which is the contemporary novel, boosted by a "pro-novel" discourse that casts novel-reading as itself a form of consciousness-raising. Ultimately, I suggest that reading serves as one of the primary vehicles of "women's culture" today, helping to sustain a fantasy of collectivity even while strict notions of individual identification and personal growth govern popular reading itself.
590 $a School code: 0175.
650 4 $a Literature, General. $3 1018152
650 4 $a Women's Studies. $3 1017481
690 $a 0401
690 $a 0453
710 2 $a University of Pennsylvania. $3 1017401
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 69-09A.
790 $a 0175
790 1 0 $a English, James, $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2008
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3328586