Discuss Elaine Showalter’s feminist concerns in
literature
FEMINIST CRITICISM IN WILDERNESS.
ELAINE SHOWALTER is an American feminist critic who has advocate the cause of women writing and criticism in her writings.
In her essay " Feminist criticism in wilderness " she differentiate between feminist criticism and Gynocriticism, where in the former the woman functions as a reader while in the later woman is also the writer of the text.
She then discusses the four aspects that formation of " Womanhood "
*Body( the biological model)
*psychology( the pshyco analytical model)
*language( the linguistic model)
*culture( the cultural model)
#feminist critique
Woman as the reader of male produce literature containing the omissions and misconception about women in criticism, gaps in androcentric (male centered) lit. And exploitation of female audiences.
#Gynocritics ( woman as writer) whose prime concern is to produce textual meaning within a female framework to analyse women's lit. develop new models on female experience and not ones that are male centered.
Gynocritics also exposes cultural assumptions and characteristics of women depicted falsely in canonical literature.
*The biological model:- emphasizes how the female body marks itself on a text by providing a host of literary images along with personal intimate tone..
*The linguistic model:- Address the need for a female discourse investigating the difference between hour women and men use language.. This model asserts that woman create and write in a language can be used in their writing.
* The cultural model:- Investigates how society shapes women's goals, responses and points of view.
* The pshyco- analytical model:- Analyzes psyche and demonstrates how such an analysis affects the writing process emphasiszing the flux and fluidity of female writing as opposed to male writing.
As a model gynocritics is restricted to Presenting a narrative of suffering that sees the women only as a victim and men and women as adversaries. This theory loses its edge to combat the issue of patriarchy as unlike woolf, Showalter doesn't use the weapon of humour.
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literature
FEMINIST CRITICISM IN WILDERNESS.
ELAINE SHOWALTER is an American feminist critic who has advocate the cause of women writing and criticism in her writings.
In her essay " Feminist criticism in wilderness " she differentiate between feminist criticism and Gynocriticism, where in the former the woman functions as a reader while in the later woman is also the writer of the text.
She then discusses the four aspects that formation of " Womanhood "
*Body( the biological model)
*psychology( the pshyco analytical model)
*language( the linguistic model)
*culture( the cultural model)
#feminist critique
Woman as the reader of male produce literature containing the omissions and misconception about women in criticism, gaps in androcentric (male centered) lit. And exploitation of female audiences.
#Gynocritics ( woman as writer) whose prime concern is to produce textual meaning within a female framework to analyse women's lit. develop new models on female experience and not ones that are male centered.
Gynocritics also exposes cultural assumptions and characteristics of women depicted falsely in canonical literature.
*The biological model:- emphasizes how the female body marks itself on a text by providing a host of literary images along with personal intimate tone..
*The linguistic model:- Address the need for a female discourse investigating the difference between hour women and men use language.. This model asserts that woman create and write in a language can be used in their writing.
* The cultural model:- Investigates how society shapes women's goals, responses and points of view.
* The pshyco- analytical model:- Analyzes psyche and demonstrates how such an analysis affects the writing process emphasiszing the flux and fluidity of female writing as opposed to male writing.
As a model gynocritics is restricted to Presenting a narrative of suffering that sees the women only as a victim and men and women as adversaries. This theory loses its edge to combat the issue of patriarchy as unlike woolf, Showalter doesn't use the weapon of humour.
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