Subject to Change

By Nancy K. Miller

Book Overview

What can reading for the gender of signature tell us about the act of reading as a poetics and politics? In Subject to Change Miller demonstrates the textual effects of female authorship in the production, reception, and circulation of women's writing. In the wake of Roland Barthes's famously Dead Author, Miller argues for the cultural vitality of feminist writing subjects.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231066619
• ISBN13: 9780231066617
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher