This document summarizes Elaine Showalter's work and contributions to feminist literary criticism. It discusses her division of feminist criticism into the "Woman as Reader" and "Woman as Writer" frameworks. It also summarizes Showalter's concept of the three phases of feminist literature - the Feminine phase, the Feminist phase, and the Female phase. The document concludes by discussing Showalter's advocacy for approaching feminist criticism from a cultural perspective that acknowledges differences among women writers.
The concept of imagination in biographia literariaDayamani Surya
Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literature considered that the mind can be divided into two faculties called as imagination and fancy.
Imagination is further divided into two types namely Primary Imagination and Secondary Imagination.
This Presentation is part of my M.A Study Paper about "Criticism and Indian aesthetic". Here my presentation is about Practical Criticism by I.A Richard.
The term "South Asian literature" refers to the literary works of writers from the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora. ... South Asian literature is written in English as well as the many national and regional languages of the region.
The concept of imagination in biographia literariaDayamani Surya
Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literature considered that the mind can be divided into two faculties called as imagination and fancy.
Imagination is further divided into two types namely Primary Imagination and Secondary Imagination.
This Presentation is part of my M.A Study Paper about "Criticism and Indian aesthetic". Here my presentation is about Practical Criticism by I.A Richard.
The term "South Asian literature" refers to the literary works of writers from the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora. ... South Asian literature is written in English as well as the many national and regional languages of the region.
Comparative literature in India an Overview of an It's History AnjaliTrivedi14
This Presentation is about one article by Subha Chakraborthy Dasgupta which is about "Comparative Literature in India an Overview of its History".
this is a group task.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
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The Waste land it’s a epic poem. A poem made of collage of images. In ‘The Waste land’ Image and symbol take in city life.
Plato's Objection to Poetry and Aristotle's DefenceDilip Barad
This presentation deals with Greek philosopher Plato's objections to poetry and Aristotle's clarification on the confusion created by Plato. It is said that Plato confused study of morals/ethics with that of aesthetics. Aristotle removed this confusion.
Feminist Approach in " To The Lighthouse" and " A Room Of one's own" by Virgi...megha trivedi
I have prepared presentation of sem - 3 M.A. English as a part of my academic activity, paper no 9 on feminist approach in To the Lighthouse and A Room of one's own .
Cleanth Brooks - The Language of ParadoxDilip Barad
This presentation is based on Cleanth Brooks's essay "The Language of Paradox,", wherein Cleanth Brooks emphasizes how the language of poetry is different from that of the sciences, claiming that he is interested in our seeing that the paradoxes spring from the very nature of the poet's language: “it is a language in which the connotations play as great a part as the denotations. And I do not mean that the connotations are important as supplying some sort of frill or trimming, something external to the real matter in hand. I mean that the poet does not use a notation at all--as a scientist may properly be said to do so. The poet, within limits, has to make up his language as he goes.”
Comparative literature in India an Overview of an It's History AnjaliTrivedi14
This Presentation is about one article by Subha Chakraborthy Dasgupta which is about "Comparative Literature in India an Overview of its History".
this is a group task.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
More Information :- https://www.topfreejobalert.com
The Waste land it’s a epic poem. A poem made of collage of images. In ‘The Waste land’ Image and symbol take in city life.
Plato's Objection to Poetry and Aristotle's DefenceDilip Barad
This presentation deals with Greek philosopher Plato's objections to poetry and Aristotle's clarification on the confusion created by Plato. It is said that Plato confused study of morals/ethics with that of aesthetics. Aristotle removed this confusion.
Feminist Approach in " To The Lighthouse" and " A Room Of one's own" by Virgi...megha trivedi
I have prepared presentation of sem - 3 M.A. English as a part of my academic activity, paper no 9 on feminist approach in To the Lighthouse and A Room of one's own .
Cleanth Brooks - The Language of ParadoxDilip Barad
This presentation is based on Cleanth Brooks's essay "The Language of Paradox,", wherein Cleanth Brooks emphasizes how the language of poetry is different from that of the sciences, claiming that he is interested in our seeing that the paradoxes spring from the very nature of the poet's language: “it is a language in which the connotations play as great a part as the denotations. And I do not mean that the connotations are important as supplying some sort of frill or trimming, something external to the real matter in hand. I mean that the poet does not use a notation at all--as a scientist may properly be said to do so. The poet, within limits, has to make up his language as he goes.”
This is a brief presentation of the basic concepts introduced by Russian formalism. It might be considered as a suitable departing point to the understanding of this literary theory.
A summary of Ferdinand de Saussure's "Course in General Linguisitcs". Largely inspired by the following great blog-entry: http://theendsa.blogspot.com/2007/05/who-hell-is-ferdinand-de-saussure.html
used for reporting in ENG 214 - Introduction to Stylistics
includes the 3 waves of feminism, post feminism, feminist writers and literature, stereotypes of women in literature
The fairy tale is usually regarded as children’s literature. It shapes the characters through rich fantasy and exaggeration. The story reflects every aspect of our life and has an educational effect on readers, especially on children. Originated from the folk lore, fairy tale is one of the most important materials for the research on local conditions and customs at that time as well as its function of moral education. However, feminists analyze it from a brand new perspective. As most of the fairy tales are written or edited during the period when men hold the leading role in society, it is unavoidable that they contain the ideology of patriarchy to some extent. The paper will focus on one classic fairy tale in The Grimm Fairy Tale -- Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose in Grimm’s book) and try to analyze the contexts from the angle of feminism. The purpose is to reveal the patriarchy hidden behind the seemingly romantic story. What’s more, it is also helpful to put forward the depth and scope of the research of feminism to improve and develop the women’s liberation, and enrich the diversification of the methodology and perspective of research. From the angle of feminism, it can be concluded from the fairy tales that in patriarchal society, women are in the position of “the other” and totally dependent on men, mentally and financially. They have to obey the social rules set by men and meet men’s pleasure for the seemingly happy ending. There are so much left for us to accomplish in the purpose of changing this situation.
Memorabilia 2024 | Department of English | MKBUDilip Barad
Memorabilia 2024 captures the essence of creativity and academic exploration within the Department of English at MKBU. This anthology showcases a diverse range of creative works and insightful reports, each reflecting the passion and dedication of our students. From compelling short stories and evocative poetry to thought-provoking essays and in-depth research papers, this publication celebrates the intellectual curiosity and talent nurtured within our academic community. Through engaging narratives and meticulous analysis, the students of the Department of English at MKBU demonstrate their commitment to excellence and their contributions to the fields of literature, language, and critical inquiry. Memorabilia 2024 serves as a testament to the vibrant scholarly environment and the profound impact of our students' endeavors on the broader academic landscape.
This booklet is documented record of various activities carried out during academic year 2022-23 by the students of the Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat.
Modern Theories of Criticism: An OverviewDilip Barad
Modern Theories of Criticism: An Overview
[Note: This presentation and video recording are of Prof. Dilip Barad's session in the Refresher Course for College / University teachers. The Refresher Course was organised by UGC-HRDC, University of Mumbai.]
Modern Literary Theory and Criticism refers to the examination and interpretation of literature using various theoretical frameworks that emerged in the 20th century. This approach encompasses diverse schools of thought such as Marxist, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, and Deconstructionist theory that offer a critical lens to analyze literary texts and reveal their deeper meanings and societal impact. The purpose of this introduction is to provide a comprehensive overview of the key concepts, influential figures, and historical developments in Modern Literary Theory and Criticism, highlighting its significance and impact in the field of literary studies.
Research Publication | Guidelines for the BeginnersDilip Barad
This presentation was made for the Postgraduate students of DAV College, Chandigarh. It is on the Research Publication. It deals with guidelines for the beginners.
Genre Study | Political Satire | Absalom and AchitophelDilip Barad
This presentation deal with Absalom and Achitophel as political satire. In the prologue, "To the Reader", Dryden states that "the true end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction".
Thematic Study of Absalom and Achitophel - John DrydenDilip Barad
The following themes are discussed in this presentation:
1. Politics, Allegory, and Satire
2. God, Religion, and the Divine Right of Kings
3. Power and Ambition
4. The Erosion of the Value and Power of Poetry
The Past, the Present and the Future of Dissecting Literary Texts: From Mora...Dilip Barad
This presentation was made in the Refresher Course in English on the theme of Pleasure of Dissecting the Text: The Poetics of Literary Theories and Criticism in English organised by UGC HRDC - Madurai Kamraj University, Tamilnadu
Two Ways to Look at Life | The Only StoryDilip Barad
There were two ways of looking at life; or two extremes of viewpoint, anyway, with a continuum between them.
One proposed that every human action necessarily carried with it the obliteration of every other action which might have been performed instead; life therefore consisted of a succession of small and large choices, expressions of free will, so that the individual was like the captain of some paddle steamer chugging down the mighty Mississippi of life.
The other proposed that it was all inevitability, that pre-history ruled, that a human life was no more than a bump on a log which was itself being propelled down the mighty Mississippi, tugged and bullied, smacked and wheedled, by currents and eddies and hazards over which no control was possible.
Theme of Love - Passion and Suffering - The Only Story - Julian BarnesDilip Barad
Passion – the Latin root of this words – suffering
Love = Passion + Suffering
Jacques Lacan – The Subject of Desire – Love-object
Love in ‘The Only Story’
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
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What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
2. Verbal slings and arrows of outrageous patriarchy
against women
• Painted and dented . . . Abhijit Mukherjee, Lok Sabha MP and son
of President Pranab Mukherjee
• Bhaiya, mujhe jaane do. Main tumhe rakhi bandhugi. Asaram
• Women should be housewives, man bread winner.
• Rape happens in India and not in Bharat.
• The worst enemy of women is women. Commonly held belief
• Why should women expose their body in films, modeling, ads
etc….
• “Balye pitorvashay…….” – 5/151. Girls are supposed to be in the
custody of their father when they are children, women must be
under the custody of their husband when married and under the
custody of her son as widows. In no circumstances is she allowed
to assert herself independently. (Manusmirti http://nirmukta.com/2011/08/27/the-status-of-women-as-depicted-by-manu-in-the-manusmriti/)
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4. • Feminist Criticism: M H Abrams
• Simone de Beauvoir : “Gender and Sex” – "One is not born, but
rather becomes, a woman”. (The Second Sex)
• Hélène Cixous (French: [elɛn siksu]: “Censor the body and you
censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your
body must be heard.” (The Laugh of Medusa)
• J. Lacan: ‘Otherness of language – in that gap desire is born’ (pg. 57-59OUP)
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Julia Kristeva: ‘foreignness of language’ (pg.63-64-OUP)
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Ad on skin whitening cream – man
Ad on skin whitening cream – woman
Star TV – Tu Hi Tu
Folk Littérateur – ‘Daughter . . .’
5. Elaine Showalter
• - born January 21, 1941 - is an American
literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural
and social issues. She is one of the founders of
feminist literary criticism in United States
academia, developing the concept and
practice of gynocritics.
6. • Showalter is a specialist in Victorian literature
and the Fin-de-Siecle (turn of the 19th
century). Her most innovative work in this
field is in madness and hysteria in literature,
specifically in women’s writing and in the
portrayal of female characters.
7. • Showalter's best known works are Toward a
Feminist Poetics (1979), The Female Malady:
Women, Madness, and English Culture (1830–
1980) (1985), Sexual Anarchy: Gender at Culture
at the Fin de Siecle (1990), Hystories: Hysterical
Epidemics and Modern Media (1997), and
Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual
Heritage (2001). In 2007 Showalter was chair of
the judges for the prestigious British literary
award, the Man Booker International Prize.
8. • Showalter's book Inventing Herself (2001), a
survey of feminist icons, seems to be the
culmination of a long-time interest in
communicating the importance of
understanding feminist tradition.
9. • Showalter is concerned by stereotypes of
feminism that see feminist critics as being
‘obsessed with the phallus’ and ‘obsessed with
destroying male artists’. Showalter wonders if
such stereotypes emerge from the fact that
feminism lacks a fully articulated theory.
10. In Toward a Feminist Poetics Showalter
divides feminist criticism into two sections:
• The Woman as Reader or Feminist Critique
• The Woman as Writer or Gynocritics (la
gynocritique)
11. The Woman as Reader or Feminist
Critique
• ‘the way in which a female reader changes our
apprehension of a given text, awakening it to
the significance of its sexual codes’
• ‘concerned with the exploitation and
manipulation of the female audience,
especially in popular culture and film, and
with the analysis of woman–as–sign in
semiotic systems’
12. The Woman as Writer or Gynocritics
(la gynocritique)
• In contrast to [an] angry or loving fixation on
male literature, the program of gynocritics is to
construct a female framework for the analysis of
women’s literature, to develop new models based
on the study of female experience, rather than to
adapt male models and theories.
• Gynocritics begins at the point when we free
ourselves from the linear absolutes of male
literary history, stop trying to fit women between
the lines of the male tradition, and focus instead
on the newly visible world of female culture.
13. Gynocriticism: key aspects
• Gynocritics is not “on a pilgrimage to the
promised land in which gender would lose its
power, in which all texts would be sexless and
equal, like angels”.
• Rather gynocritics aims to understand the
specificity of women’s writing not as a product of
sexism but as a fundamental aspect of female
reality.
• Its prime concern is to see ‘woman as producer of
textual meaning, with the history themes, genres,
and structures of literature by women’.
14. The Problem: Otherness of Language
• Showalter acknowledges the difficulty of
“[d]efining the unique difference of women’s
writing” which she says is “a slippery and
demanding task” in “Feminist Criticism in the
Wilderness”.
• Julia Kristeva: Otherness of Language
(Catherine Besley)
15. Three Phases of Feminism
• The Feminine phase (1840–1880):
• The Feminist phase (1880–1920):
• The Female phase (1920— ):
16. The Feminine phase (1840–1880):
• it is characterized by “women [writing] in an
effort to equal the intellectual achievements
of the male culture…
• The distinguishing sign of this period is the
male pseudonym… [which] exerts an irregular
pressure on the narrative, affecting tone,
diction, structure, and characterization.”
17. The Feminist phase (1880–1920):
• . . . wherein “women are historically enabled to
reject the accommodating postures of femininity
and to use literature to dramatise the ordeals of
wronged womanhood.”
• This phase is characterized by “Amazon Utopias,”
visions of perfect, female-led societies of the future.
• This phase was characterized by women’s writing
that protested against male standards and
values, and advocated women’s rights and
values, including a demand for autonomy.
• Helena Cixous: “Censor the body and you censor
breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself.
Your body must be heard.” (The Laugh of Medusa)
18. The Female phase (1920— ):
• “women reject both imitation and protest—
two forms of dependency—and turn instead
to female experience as the source of an
autonomous art, extending the feminist
analysis of culture to the forms and
techniques of literature”.
19. Conclusion
• Rejecting both imitation and protest,
Showalter advocates approaching feminist
criticism from a cultural perspective in the
current Female phase, rather than from
perspectives that traditionally come from an
androcentric perspective like psychoanalytic
and biological theories. (Cont . . .)
20. Conclusion
• In her essay Feminist Criticism in the
Wilderness (1981), Showalter says, "A cultural
theory acknowledges that there are important
differences between women as writers: class,
race nationality, and
are literary
determinants as significant as gender.
Nonetheless, women’s culture forms a
collective experience within the cultural
whole, an experience that binds women
writers to each other over time and space".