Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as ...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as ...(展开全部)

Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events and forms of social decay, economic division and human panic. Her point is that the central characteristics of American literature - individualism, masculinity, t...(展开全部)

Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

Challenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early science relied on what she calls literary knowledge to present its experimental findings. Mor...(展开全部)

Challenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early science relied on what she calls literary knowledge to present its experimental findings. Mor...(展开全部)

They borrow from published works without attribution. They remake literary creation in the image of consumption. They celebrate the art of scissors and paste. Who are these outlaws? Postmodern culture-jammers or file-sharing teens? No, they are the Copywrights--Victorian and modernist writers, among them Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, whose work wrestled with the intellectual pro...(展开全部)

桑德拉•吉尔伯特（Sandra M. Gilbert）、苏珊•古芭（Susan Gubar） 均为西方女权主义和女性主义文学研究领域颇具影响力的学者。她们是当代美国女权主义文学批评的创始人之一。两人长期合作，撰写了《阁楼上的疯女人》《诺顿女性文学选集》《没有男人的地带》等女权主义批评论著。 杨莉馨 南京大学文学博士。现任南京师范大学文学院教授、博士生导师，主要从事英美文学、女性文学及中外文学关系研究。已出版学术专著《西方女性主义文论研究》《异域性与本土化：女性主义诗学在中国的流变与影响》《20世纪文坛上的英伦百合：弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫在中国》《“我的河在向你奔来”：20世纪英语女作家在中国》等；译著有《葛特露和克劳狄斯——〈哈姆莱特〉前传》《通过身体思考》《阅读日记：重温十二部文学经典》《文尼莎与弗吉尼亚》等。

Nominated for 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award in Literature (on the earlier edition). Runner-up for the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. This pathbreaking book of feminist criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal wa...(展开全部)

"A feminist classic."—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review “A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.”—Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent gener...(展开全部)