LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This qualitative corpus-based study set out to identify, describe and explain categories of spaces in selected feminist texts. Kruger and Wallmach‘s (1997:123) corpus design compilation strategies were used, to ensure that the selected texts respected the same tertium comparationis. Data were collected through spatial criticism and Showalter‘s (1985) gynocriticism frameworks from three feminist novels and analysed u…

Reference · Wikidata

literary criticism informed by feminist theory

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or more broadly, by the politics of feminism. It uses the principles and ideology of feminism to critique the language of literature. This school of thought seeks to analyze and describe the ways in which literature portrays the narrative of male domination by exploring the economic, social, political, and psychological forces embedded wi…

Book · DOAB

The post-2016 election era in the United States is commonly presumed to be an era of crisis. Reclaiming Time argues that the narratives used to make this crisis a meaningful national story (e.g., Hillbilly Elegy, Strangers in Their Own Land) are not only gendered and racialized but also give a thin account of time, one so superficial as to make the future unimaginable. Examining the work of feminist theorists, perfo…

Full text · Open Library

A collection of five essays (plus preface and afterword) by noted feminist critics, this book provides an overview of the existing body of the feminist literary criticism, promotes and understanding of the issues feminist critics are currently discussing among themselves and with other critics, and proposes a theoretical frame work for understanding this new critical direction. It is the first collection to deal exc…

Image · DPLA

An interview with Margaret Homans, professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Homans has produced important scholarship in a variety of fields, including feminist criticism and adoption studies. She visited Pitt during the Year of Humanities to participate in a panel on transnational adoption. This interview focuses on her life and work, and the impact that her scholarship ha…