This page intentionally left blank A HISTORY OF FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature‚ fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism‚ leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the Middle Ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards‚ and analyses the
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2010 Feminist Criticism on Revolutionary Road “According to Cheryl Torsney‚ feminist criticism is not a single method‚ but rather a patchwork or “a quilt” of different methods stitched together with common conviction.” (Lynn 235). Feminist criticism was developed in the late 1960’s and its main focus is women in literature. There are two major concerns when dealing with feminist criticism how women are written and how women have been written. (Lynn 235). Michael Meyer defines feminist criticism
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In Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time‚ the leading protagonist is American WWI Veteran Nick Adams. Due to Hemingway’s specific writing style‚ his characters are often only portrayed in action. We‚ as readers‚ learn a very superficial amount about the character’s emotions because Hemingway’s style of writing is so objective and unbiased. To elaborate‚ Hemingway’s prose is very simple. He uses common words and short simple sentences in large repetition. Hemingway is extremely detailed in his expressions
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“Indian Camp”‚ by Ernest Hemingway‚ is a short story of initiation in which young Nick Adams accompanies his father‚ a physician‚ on a call to and African American or “Indian” camp‚ where the father delivers a baby by Cesarean section using only his jack-knife. The violence and pain of the birth contrast sharply with the ease of the suicide of the pregnant women’s husband‚ which was brought on by her screams and introduce Nick to the realities of birth and death. At the beginning of the story‚
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IN ANOTHER COUNTRY by Ernest Hemingway The text under analysis is taken from the short story “In another country” belonging to the pen of Ernest Hemingway‚ an American novelist and short story writer whose works are characterized by terse minimalism and understatement. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. “In another country” is a powerful and true-to-life story about real experience of many soldiers who came home after the World War I and their hardships. The text presents a
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INTRODUCTION TO PROSE Lecture: Ari Jogaiswara Adipurwawidjana FIFTY GRAND This short story is one of the stories in Men Without Women‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ an American writer. I started to love every Hemingway’s short story since I reached this semester especially this short story‚ which is tells about boxing that is one of my favorite sport. I think Hemingway was a man’s man. He wrote everything covered both things that happened in World War I and World War II‚ he had deep-sea stories‚ he liked
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Feminist Criticism of The Great Gatsby Feminist criticism focuses on the power relationships between genders and the ways pieces of literature has been shaped according to them. During the 1920’s‚ many changes had begun to counter the evident inequality between men and women. Views readily changed from politics to social lives as woman’s hemlines were raised and risks were taken. The confusion of this time for most men is seen in The Great Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald portrays the new
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Soldier’s Home By Ernest Hemingway In the battlefield soldiers are experiencing war‚ death‚ loss – they kill and watch fellow soldiers getting killed. Being a soldier is in no way an easy life‚ and it is hard for people‚ who have not experienced war to understand. When these soldiers returns from war they need to adjust themselves to their old lives – adjust themselves to live in a place that has not change a tiny bit‚ even though they are in no way the same person as they were when they left
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generation of men who served in World War 1 and the high proportion of men who died along the way. The men who survived the war came back destroyed‚ both physically and mentally‚ and no longer have faith in morality and in the goods of the people. Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises takes place in the time period after World War 1‚ depicting the negative consequences of the Lost Generation through the characters’ lives. The characters‚ Jake Barnes and his friends‚ live aimless lives by traveling
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Feminist Criticism “In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ the author characterizes each woman as passive‚ disposable and serving a utilitarian function” (Haddad). For example the women in the story provide nothing more‚ but a channel of action for the male characters of the story. Justine’s character is very passive and she is tossed back and forth between the family and frankenstein‚ when she is accused of murdering Victor’s brother. This just shows a basic role of how women were put out to be just
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