LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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it only examines one element of the text
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it examines how women are represented
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it ignores the author’s intentions
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it divorces literature from its larger cultural context
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Detailed explanation-1: -As a social movement, feminist criticism highlights the various ways women, in particular, have been oppressed, suppressed, and repressed. It asks new questions of old texts. It develops and uncovers a female tradition in writing. It analyzes women writers and their works from female perspectives” (Copeland 184-186).
Detailed explanation-2: -As a starting point for gender mainstreaming, gender analysis identifies the differences between and among women and men in terms of their relative position in society and the distribution of resources, opportunities, constraints and power in a given context.
Detailed explanation-3: -Feminist criticism, or gender studies, focuses on the role of women (or gender) in a literary text. According to feminist criticism, patriarchy, in its masculine-focused structure, socially dictates the norms for both men and women.
Detailed explanation-4: -A feminist literary critic resists traditional assumptions while reading a text. In addition to challenging assumptions which were thought to be universal, feminist literary criticism actively supports including women’s knowledge in literature and valuing women’s experiences.
Detailed explanation-5: -Feminist criticism takes the feminism and the feminism theories as a base to criticise the literature of old and modern times. It’s focused on addressing the issues regarding the place and consideration of women in social, political, psychological and economic aspects of human life.