Unlucky Girls in Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim
Unlucky Girls in Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim
Author(s): Mária Bajner Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Summary/Abstract: "Feminist criticism has always been opposed to the objectivity of the New Criticism with its insistence of the ‘impersonality’ of author and reader. Feminists, who take gender as a fundamental issue of interpretation, are rebuked by orthodox, male dominated critical schools, which sanctify the male author as an impregnable author-ity, asserting that the author’s personal life and ideology are not relevant to his impersonal literary structures. ...."
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 2005
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 46-51
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English