Feminist Poetics: Performance, Histories

Feminist Poeticsargues that the influence of poststructuralism has changed poetics from the study of ready-made textual forms into poesis--the study of the making or performing of those forms. Threadgold takes the infamous Governor murder stories--a sensational murder case in Australia in 1900--as a case study and uses the extensive group of texts produced about the case to answer the questions raised by feminist theory--who writes and for whom, and who reads and how and why.