ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Queer Theory, Thesis Statement, Feminist Literary Criticism
25 Feb 2016
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Lecture 5 mary and the teenage jesus , fight club and feminist and marxist criticism. One of the criticism approach definitions will be a definition on the exam. The simplest form of feminist criticism examines images of women in literature. A feminist critic might look at mrs. mallard as a victim of her situation a woman with few options. A feminist critic might analyze madeline in terms of her character being cast in the role of temptress, and how this characterization by her brother roderick leads to her death. Focus shifted to how women wrote about themselves and their world. There used to be an essentialist view that women and men write literature differently. Now, it has become more allied with new historicism and its notions of cultural creation of identity. It is important for feminist critics to study non-western literature.
