E 341 Lecture Notes - Misogyny, Feminist Literary Criticism
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As barry suggests, feminist literary criticism of today is the direct product of the women"s movement" of the 1960"s . It is important to consider distinctions between the pop culture understanding of feminism and what is meant by feminist literary criticism. Feminine a set of culturally defined characteristics". For many reasons, these terms become synonymous in everyday language. However, feminist literary criticism requires clarity of terms speaking about something from the female point of view would be different than discussing it from a feminist perspective. Draws upon the findings and approaches of other kinds of criticism marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and so on . Explores the nature of the female world outlook, and reconstructs the lost or suppressed records of female experience critique of misogynist stereotypes in male- authored literature. Constructs a new canon of women"s writing by rewriting the history of the novel and of poetry in such a way that neglected women writers were given new prominence.
