LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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An understanding of the various conceptions and understandings of gender that have carried throughout various cultures
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An understanding of gender as a human construct
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An understanding of how standard histories of western societies are presented in terms of heterosexual identity
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All of these.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gender Criticism: This approach “examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works.” Originally an offshoot of feminist movements, gender criticism today includes a number of approaches, including the so-called “masculinist” approach recently advocated by poet Robert Bly.
Detailed explanation-2: -Feminist Criticism is concerned with the role, position, and influence of women in a literary text.
Detailed explanation-3: -New Criticism This approaches focuses primarily on the text itself and tends to avoid outside influences such as historical and biographical information.
Detailed explanation-4: -Feminist criticism, or gender studies, focuses on the role of women (or gender) in a literary text.