标题：Cornelia Wilhelmina KOOLEN, Reading beyond the female: The relationship between perception of author gender and literary quality, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, ILLC, 2018, ISBN 978-94-028-0951-0, 324 p.
期刊名称：Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory
电子版ISSN：2457-8827
出版年度：2020
卷号：6
期号：2
页码：185-191
语种：Romanian
出版社：Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
摘要：The intersection of gender studies and digital humanities emerged as a necessary investigation of the field’s patriarchal and hegemonic rhetoric that kept on furthering biased preconceptions, safely justified by the perception of an unmediated and complete access to knowledge. In an attempt to include and promote feminist scholarship, computational analysis is now investigating canonical theories regarding gender or ‘genderness’ in writing, which have always justified the exclusion and difficulty of women authors gaining literary prestige and entering the canon. Well known texts of the 20th century, from Woolf, to French feminism or classics such as Toril Moi, expanded the debate on what the limits of an existing ‘feminine writing’ could be. A century of women authors had to transcend correlations of domestic topics such as ‘settling down’, sensibility in writing, and ‘feminine rhetoric’ in order to adhere to acclaimed literariness. As much as one side of the debate wanted to force the inclusion of the newly emerging female authors through dropping the categories of men or women, the idealistic possibility of one to ‘forget their gender when writing’, that feminist pillars wrote about on repeated occasions, remains inaccessible today still. Or rather, although authors moved past the need to assign themselves a certain gendered writing style, reading cannot be done beyond the implications of gender or ‘genderness’, especially if literariness or literary quality is in focus.
