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Synopsis
Feminist Poetics argues that the influence of poststructuralism has changed poetics from the study of ready-made textual forms into poesis—the study of the making or performing of those forms. Threadgold takes the infamous Governor murder stories—a sensational murder case in Australia in 1900—as a case study and uses the extensive group of texts produced about the case to answer the questions raised by feminist theory—who writes and for whom, and who reads and how and why.
Booknews
A feminist and poststructuralist "performance" (e. i. reading) of texts written in response to the Australian "Governor murders"of 1900. Get out your postmodern literary criticism dictionaries. Threadgold (English, Monash U.) lays it on thick with her study of grammatical forms linked to the body and to the research of Kuhn, Foucault, Habermas, Butler, and Dorothy Smith. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.