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(0)Josephine Donovan
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"In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such as mimesis and catharsis, before moving on to an applied section, with...
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A collection of five essays (plus preface and afterword) by noted feminist critics, this book provides an overview of the existing body of the feminist literary criticism, promotes and understanding of the issues feminist critics are currently discussing among themselves and with other critics, and proposes a theoretical frame work for understanding this new critical direction. It is the first collection to deal exclusively with certain theoretical...