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Feminist/Gender. By: Jon, Michelle, Katie, and Dave F. Disadvantages: -Feminist literary criticism is often misunderstood as anti-patriarchal or ‘male bashing’ and can turn a work of literature into a political battlefield. The feminist approach can often be viewed as too theoretical. .
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Feminist/Gender By: Jon, Michelle, Katie, and Dave F.
Disadvantages: -Feminist literary criticism is often misunderstood as anti-patriarchal or ‘male bashing’ and can turn a work of literature into a political battlefield. The feminist approach can often be viewed as too theoretical. • Advantages: -Women have been generally underrepresented in the traditional cannon, and a feminist approach to literature redresses this problem.
Definition • Feminist Criticism is concerned with the impact of gender on writing and reading. A feminist approach does not simply look at literature from female writers/characters. Instead, a feminist approach to understanding literature attempts to uncover what a particular text has to say about gender and gender differences.
Background • French feminist criticism garnered much of its inspiration from Simone de Beauvoir’s seminal book, LéDeuxiémeSexe (1949; The Second Sex). • French feminist critics writing during the 1970s acknowledged Beauvoir’s critique but focused on language as a tool of male domination • Interested in the subject of feminine language and writing, North American feminist critics of the 1970s and early 1980s began by analyzing literary texts • Today’s critics seldom focus on "woman" as a relatively monolithic category; rather, they view "women" as members of different societies with different concerns.
Literary Criticism This text connects women with flower and nature. The 6th-8th line of the poem, express nature, connecting the mother with mother earth. A typical woman figure is usually compared to mother nature , the figure of motherhood and all women. Ravikovitch looks up to her mother as a role model and she is crushed when she loses her. In her illness, her mother has lost her feminism by losing sight of the beauty in the ‘blooming of the flowers’. Ravikovitch’s mother was a strong woman because she was able to admit when she was ready to die. Woman are strong and this poem, displays two strong female characters.
Works Cited • Murtin, Ross. "VirtuaLit: Critical Approaches." Default. Web. 03 Dec. 2011. • "Gale - Free Resources - Glossary - Home." Gale - Home. Web. 04 Dec. 2011. "Literary Terms and Definitions." Web. 04 Dec. 2011. • "Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric." BYU Humanities. Web. 04 Dec. 2011.
