LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Women should write for and about themselves in order to counter phallocentric texts.
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Women should write, but they should do so only within the existent male canon.
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Women should primarily dedicate themselves to studying women’s literature from the past.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cixous’s essay ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ opens with an exhortation to women “to write herself”. She had been forcibly separated from her body and now it is up to her to reclaim the body that is her own and free herself from the shackles of patriarchy.
Detailed explanation-2: -"The Laugh of the Medusa” is successful in its creation of a writing style that allows women to claim authority because it was created on the foundation of the woman’s claim to herself and her body, therefore eliminating the oppressive effects of patriarchal control of rhetoric.
Detailed explanation-3: -Introduced by Helene Cixous in her essay, The Laugh of the Medusa, ecriture feminine refers to a uniquely feminine style of writing characterised by disruptions in the text, such as gaps, silences, puns, new images and so on.
Detailed explanation-4: -In her seminal work “The Laugh of the Medusa” feminist thinker Helene Cixous deals with the topic of feminine writing. Her main point in the article is that women should pursue writing despite attempts to drive them away from the field in the past.