ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

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With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated?
A
Elaine Showalter
B
Julia Kristeva
C
Lucy Irigaray
D
Louise M. Rosenblatt
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of “women as writers".

Detailed explanation-2: -Gynocriticism is the study of women’s writing. The term gynocritics was coined by Elaine Showalter in 1979 to refer to a form of feminist literary criticism that is concerned with women as writers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Elaine Showalter’s three phases of feminism: the “feminine” (women writers imitate men), the “feminist” (women advocated minority rights and protested), and the “female” (the focus is now on women’s texts as opposed to merely uncovering misogyny in men’s texts).

Detailed explanation-4: -Samuel Taylor Coleridge. British poet and critic. Virginia Woolf. British writer. T.S. Eliot. American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic. James Russell Lowell. American poet and critic. See All. 17-Jan-2023

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