Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/469/engl-300 ENGL-300: INTRODUCTION TO THEORY OF LITERATURE Lecture 19 - The New Historicism [March 31‚ 2009] Chapter 1. Origins of New Historicism [00:00:00] Professor Paul Fry: So today we turn to a mode of doing literary criticism which was extraordinarily widespread beginning in the late seventies and into the eighties‚ called the New Historicism. It was definable in ways that I’ll turn to in a minute and‚ as I say‚ prevalent to a remarkable
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By looking closely‚ this essay with demonstrate how the author‚ Suzanne Collins gives her opinion of how she feels about gender equality in many different ways. One of the ways Suzanne Collins gives her opinion of gender equality is by Gale and Katniss both hunting. For example‚ "They’re not our kids‚ of course. but they mighty as well be. Gale’s two little brothers and a sister. Prim. And you may as well throw in our mothers‚ too‚ because how they live without us? who would fill those mouths
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exposed through the reversal of roles in both of these pieces. The characters in these stories clearly demonstrate the expectations that certain males and females must negotiate in order to expose the problems when there is labeling of certain genders. Judith Butler’s analysis of gender is that it is performative- meaning that nobody really is a gender from the start; after watching the video and reading the text for this exercise‚ it is clear that Fionna and The Knight expose the misconceptions of gender
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Butler questions whether these gendered behaviors are natural as they are learned from one’s performance of a “gendered” individual to keep heterosexuality among their culture. If she had it her way‚ she would simply like to let one subject “be” and see
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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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brought me "up to speed" so to speak‚ on what this new-aged‚ misunderstood set of beliefs actually means. To begin‚ the Queer Theory is‚ "a set of ideas based around the idea that identities are not fixed and do not determine who we are" (Butler 1990). Basically‚ this definition can be broken down into several parts. Not only does the Queer Theory deal with homosexuality‚ but it also deals with feminism and any type of sexual act that is "queer" by definition. Queer is defined as
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1st edn‚ (Quartermaine House Ltd‚ 1980) • Hogett‚ Brenda‚ Mental Health Law‚ 4th edn‚ (Sweet and Maxwell‚ 1996) • Maguire‚ Mike‚ Morgan‚ Rod‚ Reiner‚ Robert‚ The Oxford Handbook of Criminology‚ 4th edn‚ (Oxford University Press‚ 2007) • M.Laing‚ Judith‚ ‘Care Or Custody? Mentally Disordered Offenders in the Criminal Justice System‚ (Oxford University Press‚ 1999) • Peay‚ Jill‚ Tribunals on Trial‚ 1st edn‚ (Oxford University Press‚ 1989) • S • The Divided Self: An Existential Study of Insanity
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“Gender Trouble.” The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc.‚ 2001. 2536-53. Print. 2) Halberstam‚ Judith. “The Good‚ the Bad‚ and the Ugly: Men‚ Women‚ and Masculinity.” The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc.‚ 2001. 2635-53. Print. 3) Bruzzi‚ Stella. Introduction. Bringing up
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from the play‚ but to firstly get a depth of what the gender aspect of identity is‚ it To help with the identity aspect I will talk about one theorist and how they explain what they are. The gender theorist which specialises in this aspect is Judith Butler who I later will be talking about. First
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that. I will discuss how Kimberlé Crenshaw’s literature Traffic at the Crossroads: Multiple Oppressions has a very similar underlying vision shared with bell hooks about what it takes to effectively liberate women in society. I will also discuss how Judith Butler’s postmodern theories in Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of “Postmodernism” correlate positively with bell hooks’ ideologies in her ‘radical agenda’. I will discuss that Martha Nussbaum’s philosophical presentation of feminist
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