PPT-Feminist Literary Criticism:

A HowTo 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 works portrayal of gender as it relates to power and identity. : 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 . Dr. Maier. Aristotle: . Poetics. First significant work of literary criticism . Authored in 335 B.C. . Pity and Fear (Eleos and Phobos) . Catharsis. Mimesis. A Multiplicity of Approaches. Literary critics are almost never unified in their interpretation of a novel or any literary work. Why do you suppose this is the case? What factors make it virtually impossible for critics to come to a consensus regarding the meaning of a literary work? . English 113. Literature-Based Research. Suzann Ledford. Introduction to Literary Criticism. Literary criticism has two main functions:. To analyze, study, and evaluate works of literature.. To form general principles for the examination of works of literature.. Different Ways of Looking at Literary Texts. Types of criticism. in this slideshow. Reader’s response. Formalist. Structuralist. Archetypal . Deconstruction. Feminist deconstruction . Post-structural. By: . Becca. & . Anshika. The Feministic Approach. Concerned with the impact of the gender on writing and reading. Does not simply look at the literature from female writers or female characters. Pizza rolls, not gender roles!. Key Terms. Patriarchy . – male-dominated power structures. Misogyny . – hatred of women. Gender-role stereotyping . – a series of norms and behaviors based on gender. The Summer without Men. Lecture Format. Reading . The Summer without . Men. The . novel as a non-realist text. NB Donald Barthelme’s ‘The Balloon’. http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms/Colleges/College%20of%20Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences/EMS/Readings/139.105/Additional/The%20Balloon%20-%20Donald%20Barthelme.pdf. “The study of gender, within literature, is of general importance to everyone.”. - Judith Spector. “I have a male mind with male experiences. Therefore I see things through the perception of a man. I couldn’t relate to some of Virginia Woolf’s views and I despised the way she pushed her viewpoint on the reader. This was brought on by my masculinity, I feel.”. What is Feminist Literary Criticism?. Definition…. Feminist criticism is concerned with the . impact of gender . on writing and reading.. Gender versus Biological Sex. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women. 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 . , Aidan, . and Sean . McC. . . Definition. Feminist criticism is a type of literary criticism focusing on the role of women in literature.. Centering on the style in which the piece is written, and the way it relates to women. Mrs. Crowell. (information adapted from Ms. . Klassen. ). Literary Criticism: An Introduction. A DEFINITION:. Literary Criticism is the . study, analysis . and interpretation of a literary work. . The . 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..