PPT-Feminist Criticism

I n her essay Representing Ophelia Woman Madness and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism Elaine Showalter asks if Ophelia is indeed representative of Woman and if her madness stands for the oppression of women in society as well as tragedy This question is certainly not the only one that feminists would be interested in exploring but it is one of the central concerns of critical scholarship over the years Consequently scenes in which Ophelia plays a significant role although limited provide some of the best opportunities to apply the feminist lens Three scenes in particular would be appropriate. CMST 450/550. Genre began as an absolute classification system in ancient Greece. Poetry, prose and performance had a specific and calculated style that related to the theme of the story. . During . : Reading Contemporary . Fiction. Feminism and Literature. Feminism and Contemporary Culture. Feminism and Literature. Lecture Content. “Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions.. for safety on the streets… for child care, for social welfare… for rape crisis . Notes on the Feminist Approach. Feminism is an evolving philosophy .. The basis of the movement, both in literature and society, is that the Western world is fundamentally patriarchal(created by men, ruled by men, viewed through the eyes of men, and judged by men).. ENGL 3370: Modern American Poetry. New Criticism. A Brief Guide to the Fugitives.  (from poets.org) . “. The Fugitive. was a literary magazine of poetry and criticism published at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1922 until 1925. Both faculty and students, including John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, among others, contributed to this publication. They were practitioners and defenders of formal techniques in poetry and were preoccupied with defending the traditional values of the agrarian South against the effects of urban industrialization.. “Frailty, thy name is woman!”. What is feminism?. Feminism is “the . drive to achieve rights and equality for women in social, political and economic life. .”. “Feminism . is not necessarily anti-men, but is against sexism: the beliefs and practices which structure and maintain the subordination and oppression of women. A How-To Guide. There are myriad things to notice and comment upon in any text.. Literary (critical) lenses focus our vision, drawing our attention to one specific aspect of a text. The feminist lens looks with a critical eye at a work’s portrayal of gender as it relates to power and identity.. Identity and Behavior. Liz Redford, Kate A. . Ratliff, & Jordan . Rogaliner. University of Florida. Background. Purpose. : to examine whether attitudes toward feminist prototypes predict the extent to which men and women identify as feminists and are willing to engage in feminist behaviors, above and beyond variation in gender equality attitudes.. John Michael . Mumme. , . Cammy. . Sray. , James Sandberg, . & the CU Writing Center present:. Using Feminist criticism . vs. being a feminist. “Feminism”: leave the connotations at the door . English . 4U. by . Carlinda. . D’Alimonte. This presentation is partly based on a PowerPoint by . Suzann . Ledford.. Introduction to Literary Criticism. Any piece of text can be read with a number of different sets of “glasses,” meaning you are looking for different things within the text.. lenses. . applied to an object under consideration; they bring certain qualities into focus or call our attention to particular issues.. . Why do we use different forms of criticism?. Literary criticism is an extension of the social activity of interpreting. One reader writes down his or her views on what a particular work of literature means so that others can respond to that interpretation. The critic's specific purpose may be to . ENG 4U. Diversity. Feminist literary theory is difficult to define because feminism itself is difficult to define. . The term “feminism” does not claim to account for . all. women’s experiences in exactly the same way because women have different experiences based on race, religion, sexual orientation, class, age, heritage, geographic location, physical appearance, etc. There is great diversity within feminism.. John Michael . Mumme. , . Cammy. . Sray. , James Sandberg, . & the CU Writing Center present:. Using Feminist criticism . vs. being a feminist. “Feminism”: leave the connotations at the door . This very brief survey of the emergence of feminist theology, particularly in the last thirty years of the twentieth century, has made it evident that feminist theology is global. Christian women theologians across the globe are concerned with common themes of critique of sexist symbols in Christianity and the reconstruction of the symbolism for God, Christ, humanity and nature, Psychoanalytic Criticism . Psychoanalytic.  criticism adopts the methods of "reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses. One may psychoanalyze a particular character within a literary work, but it is usually assumed that all such characters are projections of the author's psyche..