{"product_id":"getting-personal-feminist-occasions-and-other-autobiographical-acts-9780415903240","title":"Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts","description":"In the era of identity politics, whose is the I of cultural criticism? And what does the invention of an autobiographical persona have to do with contemporary theory? In Getting Personal, Nancy K. Miller reflects upon the ways in which contingencies of identity and location shape the writing of academic argument and the living of an academic life.\u003cbr\u003e Getting Personal explores the new territory of feminist cultural studies and its connections to literary interpretation. The book is organized around a number of academic scenes in which Miller analyses the stakes of feminist critical performance. The focus on occasions, from the conference to the seminar to the professional colloquium, produces an autobiographical perspective on the mini-drama of institutional politics - whether faculty struggles over the canon in elite universities, or student strivings for self-authorization in large urban ones. Writing as a feminist critic, Miller describes the dilemmas of a responsible pedogogic practice: the contradictory demands of authority and complicity for a feminist teacher of literature.\u003cbr\u003eGetting Personal examines the rhetorical strategies of a feminism traversed by internal debates over its own self-representations. Working through and among quotations of voices that might otherwise not address each other, Miller assesses a crisis and offers a project for moving on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy K. Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.02w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415903240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNancy K. Miller\u003c\/strong\u003e is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Lehman College. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eChanging the\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eSubject\u003c\/em\u003e (1988), \u003cem\u003eThe Heroine's Text\u003c\/em\u003e (1982), and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Poetics of Gender\u003c\/em\u003e (1986), as well as the author of numerous critical essays on gender and sexuality, feminist theory, and on French literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43195215347827,"sku":"9.78042E+12","price":93.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f7a139d7-c161-46d5-8aef-5a6ac61facd7.jpg?v=1752582829","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/getting-personal-feminist-occasions-and-other-autobiographical-acts-9780415903240","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}