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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"feminist criticism"”.
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Materialist-feminist criticism and selected plays of Sarah Daniels, Liz Lochhead and Claire Dowie.
… upon the premise that there is a relationship of feminist theatre practice to feminist theory, where theory is seen to have informed practice and practice has informed the theory. I argue that an ideological theatre can be understood with reference to first, playstructure and second, the place of …
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Reading Democracy: Anthologies of African American Women's Writing and the Legacy of Black Feminist Criticism, 1970-1990
… Democracy</italic> historicizes a black feminist literary critical practice and movement that developed alongside black feminist activism beginning in the 1970s. This dissertation addresses the future direction of scholarship based in Women's Studies and African-American Studies by …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
… as increasingly fraught under the lens of feminist criticism. The Romantic construction of “sublimation,” a process by which a “subject” can gain invaluable creative or spiritual knowledge through an interaction with an “other” (often, a natural place or thing) requires an implicit …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
… as increasingly fraught under the lens of feminist criticism. The Romantic construction of “sublimation,” a process by which a “subject” can gain invaluable creative or spiritual knowledge through an interaction with an “other” (often, a natural place or thing) requires an implicit …
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An invisible main character : divine providence in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
… religion in these texts. I also want to build on feminist criticism that notices the ways in which the heroines' faith empowers them and argue that their faith in divine providence also directly implies their human limitations. I will begin, then, by establishing their faith in divine providence …
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Oedipus' Wake: The (Neo-)Masculinization of the Self in Late Twentieth-Century American Women's Memoir
… flowering of western theory and criticism built around autobiographical writing and follows the feminist branch(es) of that theory and criticism through a reading of the following four memoirs: <em>Autobiography of a Face </em>by Lucy Grealy, <em>All the Lost Girls </em>by …
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Studying the Hyphen: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Selected Works by Amy Tan
… aims to explore these relationships in light of feminist criticism, to provide a close reading of the novel focusing on the themes of conception, language and reflections and mirrors.
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Cornucopia: Food as Signifier in Literature For the Young
… fantasy, provide the foundation for this study. Feminist criticism allows for an examination of gender roles and stereotypes and reveals that as a rule, authors' use of food perpetuates traditional gender roles by placing women in the context of the kitchen as those who offer nourishment and deny …
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Reading and Writing As/if: US Literary Criticism and Identity
<p>As/if: US Literary Criticism and Identity turns to early queer and third-wave feminist scholarship to identify a unique strategy and style of literary criticism, which I name as/if criticism. As/if criticism is both born of and resistant to two conflicting imperatives in the US academy, which …
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WOMEN WRITERS AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE GENTLEMAN: MASCULINITY, AUTHORITY, AND MALE CHARACTERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELS BY WOMEN
… gender relationships. Eighteenth-century feminist criticism has charted the wide-ranging and creative avenues women carved out for themselves within a male-dominated, patriarchal culture. However, critics have typically dismissed the male characters of eighteenth-century female authors as …
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Jezebel's Daughters: A Study of Wilkie Collins and His Female Villains
The term "feminist," when applied to Wilkie Collins, implies he was concerned with rectifying the oppression of women in domestic life as well as with promoting equal rights between the sexes. This study explores Collins the "feminist" by analyzing his portrayals of women, particularly his most …
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Developing Latin American Feminist Theory: Strategies of Resistance In the Novels of Luisa Valenzuela and Sandra Cisneros
… First World colonizing powers. Latin American feminist criticism, gathering momentum as an official movement shortly after that of the United States, has met similar problems in its effort to extricate itself from U.S., French, and English models. This body of criticism has been forced to …
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Disrupted Conventions: Gender Roles in Mildred Walker's The Curlew's Cry and Winter Wheat
… plains, Walker introduces a modern and arguably feminist critique of the prescriptive roles found throughout the genre of the “Western.” Walker’s narratives portray her characters, both female and male, as unsatisfied with their too-narrowly defined gender roles. My reading of her texts suggests …
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Disrupted Conventions: Gender Roles in Mildred Walker's The Curlew's Cry and Winter Wheat
… plains, Walker introduces a modern and arguably feminist critique of the prescriptive roles found throughout the genre of the “Western.” Walker’s narratives portray her characters, both female and male, as unsatisfied with their too-narrowly defined gender roles. My reading of her texts suggests …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… as a critical tool, to be applied to drama. Feminist theory from anthropology, psychology, literary criticism, and film theory is summarized and one theorist from each field is selected to serve as an example of how feminism in that field can illuminate drama written by both women and …
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Lady Macbeth and Gertrude: A Study in Gender
… within its oppressive grasp. A combination of Feminist Criticism and New Historicism reveals that Lady Macbeth and Gertrude did not overstep the bounds of their gender, but in fact were suppressed within them. The limited rights and freedoms of a woman during the Renaissance is heavily …
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
… rather, following the lead of recent feminist criticism, I explore masculinity and femininity within the contexts of other social categories such as class, work, sanity, and race. The first chapter locates Victorian antitheatricality within the context of industrial culture. Reading …
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"Taking her part in a duet" : the painful creation of the self in Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot.
Contemporary feminist criticism, which focuses on recovering lost texts by women and rereading women's texts traditionally absorbed in and obscured by the male canon, bears broadening to incorporate insights into the female psyche that come from research in other disciplines. Anthropological …
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"The ""intellectual entertainments"" of Charlotte Lennox: Literary strategies of an eighteenth century professional woman writer"
… genres--fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism, and the periodical. Each chapter of this dissertation focuses on a different genre and shows how Lennox adapted the literary conventions she chose so that she could better express her preoccupation with improving women's lives. Chapter I …
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Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire
… I survey important recent historical and feminist criticism of <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> and situate my project within the current debate regarding definitions of premodern sexuality. In chapter 2, part one, drawing on medieval concepts of imagination and vision, as well as …
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