Feminist literary criticism
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| - | {{Template}}'''Feminist literary criticism''' is [[literary criticism]] informed by [[feminist theory]], or by the politics of [[feminism]] more broadly. Its history has been broad and varied, from classic works of nineteenth-century women authors such as [[George Eliot]] and [[Margaret Fuller]] to cutting-edge theoretical work in [[women's studies]] and [[gender studies]] by "[[third-wave feminism|third-wave]]" authors. In the most general and simple terms, feminist literary criticism before the 1970s -- in the [[first-wave feminism|first]] and [[second-wave feminism|second wave]]s of feminism -- was concerned with the politics of women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within literature. Since the arrival of more complex conceptions of gender and subjectivity and [[third-wave feminism]], feminist literary criticism has taken a variety of new routes. It has considered gender in the terms of [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]ian and [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]], as part of the [[deconstruction]] of existing relations of power, and as a concrete political investment. It has been closely associated with the birth and growth of [[queer studies]]. And the more traditionally central feminist concern with the representation and politics of women's lives has continued to play an active role in criticism. | + | {{Template}} |
| + | '''Feminist literary criticism''' is [[literary criticism]] informed by [[feminist theory]], or by the politics of [[feminism]] more broadly. Its history has been broad and varied, from classic works of nineteenth-century women authors such as [[George Eliot]] and [[Margaret Fuller]] to cutting-edge theoretical work in [[women's studies]] and [[gender studies]] by "[[third-wave feminism|third-wave]]" authors. In the most general and simple terms, feminist literary criticism before the 1970s -- in the [[first-wave feminism|first]] and [[second-wave feminism|second wave]]s of feminism -- was concerned with the politics of women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within literature. Since the arrival of more complex conceptions of gender and subjectivity and [[third-wave feminism]], feminist literary criticism has taken a variety of new routes. It has considered gender in the terms of [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]ian and [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]], as part of the [[deconstruction]] of existing relations of power, and as a concrete political investment. It has been closely associated with the birth and growth of [[queer studies]]. And the more traditionally central feminist concern with the representation and politics of women's lives has continued to play an active role in criticism. | ||
| - | Lisa Tittle has defined feminist theory as asking "new questions of old texts." {{Fact|date=February 2007}} She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: (1) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, (2) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, (3) to rediscover old texts, (4) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, (5) to resist sexism in literature, and (6) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style. | + | Lisa Tittle has defined feminist theory as asking "new questions of old texts." She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: (1) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, (2) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, (3) to rediscover old texts, (4) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, (5) to resist sexism in literature, and (6) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style. |
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| + | * [[Feminist art criticism]] | ||
| * [[Feminist film theory]] | * [[Feminist film theory]] | ||
| + | * [[Feminist criticism]] | ||
| * [[Feminist theory]] | * [[Feminist theory]] | ||
| * [[Literary criticism]] | * [[Literary criticism]] | ||
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Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or by the politics of feminism more broadly. Its history has been broad and varied, from classic works of nineteenth-century women authors such as George Eliot and Margaret Fuller to cutting-edge theoretical work in women's studies and gender studies by "third-wave" authors. In the most general and simple terms, feminist literary criticism before the 1970s -- in the first and second waves of feminism -- was concerned with the politics of women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within literature. Since the arrival of more complex conceptions of gender and subjectivity and third-wave feminism, feminist literary criticism has taken a variety of new routes. It has considered gender in the terms of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, as part of the deconstruction of existing relations of power, and as a concrete political investment. It has been closely associated with the birth and growth of queer studies. And the more traditionally central feminist concern with the representation and politics of women's lives has continued to play an active role in criticism.
Lisa Tittle has defined feminist theory as asking "new questions of old texts." She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: (1) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, (2) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, (3) to rediscover old texts, (4) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, (5) to resist sexism in literature, and (6) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style.
See also
- Feminist art criticism
- Feminist film theory
- Feminist criticism
- Feminist theory
- Literary criticism
- Women's writing in English
- Thinking About Women by Mary Ellmann
