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Notes on the Afterlife of Feminist Criticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Sinead McDermott
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In responding to the title of this roundtable, i was determined to do two things. First, i did not want to revisit the metaphors of illness and death offered by Susan Gubar as indicative of the state of feminist criticism in 1998. It is clear to me that feminist criticism and what we mean by that term are changing, but I also want to acknowledge the continued significance of this methodology for my own work. Feminist criticism works for me as a mode of literary analysis and as a way of seeing the world, and I am reluctant to offer a doomsday scenario for its future.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 121 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 1729 - 1734
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2006

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