Feminist literary criticism

Approach Formalism is a type of criticism that allows a reader to review a certain text or piece of literature but you only focus on the literary elements throughout the piece such as: diction, irony, metaphors, symbolism, paradoxes, etc. But like all approaches to literature or anything in life, there are pros and cons. Some good things about formalism is that it gives you an idea of the author’s intent, helps the reader understand figurative language, literary devices, and more of the…

Feminist theory is a fairly new approach to the IR discipline and the aim is to produce knowledge that helps inform practices to improve the lives of women. Feminists use the experience of women to make research that is beneficial to women. In doing so they believe that their viewpoints might uncover aspects of reality that is hidden by more conventional approaches. Feminists believe that by paying attention to experiences of women IR theories might be reformulated and the understanding of world…

The feminist theory is always adapting to new cultures and always changing. What stems from the feminist theory is feminist literary criticism “feminist criticism examines the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforces or undermines the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women” (Critical Theory Today, 4 Feminist Criticism, pg. 79 Tyson, Louis). This theory shows us how patriarchal our society is and that’s how Susan Glaspell’s shows her work in…

literature has never been an objective science, these self-serving perspectives effectively remove any objectivity from the criticisms at all. Of course, by writing two characters that both represent a level of cravenness and evil (Othello did, after all, cold bloodedly murder…

Bandy, Stephen C. "'One Of My Babies': The Misfit and the Grandmother." Studies in Short Fiction 33.1 (1996):107-118.Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Vol. 61. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 28 Mar. 2016. The critic, Stephen Brandy, believes that the short story “A Good Man is Hard To Find” is a harsh realization to the truths of Christianity beliefs. He claims that “one cannot deny that the concerns of this story are the basic…

V.S. Naipaul, a Trinidad-born British author of Indian origin is an eminent commonwealth writer. He has been recognized as a literary giant, one of the finest writers in the English language today. Rootlessness and alienation form the dominant themes of Naipaul’s best novels. His novels show his obsession with the lot of the Caribbean people – their displacement, exile, dispossession, alienation and isolation. He analyses how the colonial experience of displacement and the consequent experience…

From the centre of modernity, dismayed by the world wars, with a sense of dislocation, and in a search for tradition, T.S Elliot, has remained a crucial figure in Literature and criticism. This essay aims to explore Elliot’s pursuit for tradition and order in response to the chaos of his society. The critical essay ‘tradition and the individual talent’ will be focalised on, to analyse Elliot’s scrutiny of tradition, and critics will be engaged to receive distinctive facets of the argument.…

Every critic has their own way of evaluating a play. Some may prioritize aspects that other critics do not. However, there are basic universal problems that all critics should address. Authors Oscar G. Brockett and Robert J. Ball state that what all critics need to basically focus on is the understanding, effectiveness, and ultimate worth of what they are critiquing (Brockett and Ball, pp. 32, par. 3). Yet according to journalist Maria Bustillos, critics could have their own opinion and follow…

classic book An Experiment in Criticism comes from the conviction that literature exists for the elation of the reader and that a book shall not be judged by the reading but by whom the reader is. Lewis argues, to distinguish between a good book and a bad, we must therefore not refer to how the book is written but by how it is read. Throughout the book, Lewis discuss’ his theories about why that is true, starting by separating the readers into two groups, one the “literary” and the other the…

every aspect of a story literary criticism must be applied. A literary critic is an individual that observes various forms of literature in the form of stories, plays, and poems. Willa Sibert Cather is the author of the short story called, “Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament” and this story specifically applies to almost any literary theory. Cather provides an abundance of information that allows for literary criticism with the influence of the various types of literary theories. Cather is…