A Productive Alliance

Abstract

The primary goal of the volume to be discussed is to offer students in departments of philology a “compact introduction to the foundations, categories, and methods of the analysis of narrative texts from the perspective of feminist oriented literary scholarship and its off-shoot gender studies” (2). Along these lines, the editors offer not only fundamental theories, definitions, and methods, but also a series of empirical analyses of a “broad spectrum of textual examples” (3). Thereby a book has emerged that can be profitable even for instructors in literature departments and faculties. After reading the volume, no one at least will be able to debate the relevance of the category of gender for the analysis of narrative texts.