FEMINISM 2

FEMINISM 2

Please answer each question on its own.
Making sure you have Q1 then the answer and then on the next page you have Q2 and its answer and the last page should be the reference page.
Each question is only between 250-300 words and no more then that for each question.
Q1: The Marxist- Feminist Collective, in the extract from their’ Women Writing: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh’. Identify one of the difficult negotiations faced by Feminist critics working in Victorian period to locate authors such as the Bronte’s or Jane Austen as ‘Women Novelists’, not simply novelists, runs the risk of reproducing a ‘ gender criticism’ which subsumes their texts into the sexually-defined personality of its author and thereby threatens to obliterate [their] literarily’, on the other hand, to pass over the ideology of gender ignores the fact that the ‘conditions of literary production and consumption are articulated, in the Victorian period in crucially different ways for men and women’. WHAT IS AT STAKE IN THIS NEGOTIATION? do you think it is possible to discuss the works of writers such as jane austen without considering the position as a woman in a partriarchal society? Do you think that you could discuss the work of a modern female writer without considering gender?
Q2) In her article ‘ Feminism and Literature Elaine Showalter admits that ‘no one, including myself, speaks for feminist criticism’. As Showalter goes on to suggest, Feminism has drawn on a diverse range of critical tools, including cultural anthropology, linguistics, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Deconstruction, Semiotics and discourse theory. THINK ABOUT THE READINGS THAT HAVE BEEN SET FOR FEMINISM, PAYING PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE INFLUENCES THAT HAVE SHAPED THE INDIVIDUAL APPROACHES OF EACH CRITIC. DO THEY HAVE ANY ELEMENTS IN COMMON? WHAT COULD BE SAID TO UNITE THESE WRITERS WITHIN A COMMON THEORETICAL FRAME?

These are the only guides to read up for the 2 questions.
* The Marxist-Feminist Collective. From ‘ Women Writing Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh’ Ideologyand Consciousness, 3 (1978) pg 30-33 Reprinted in Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. 2nd edition. Eds Philip rice and patriciu Waugh. London Edward Arnold, 1989, pg 102-107.
* Showalter, Elaine. ‘Feminism and Literature’. Literary Theory Today. Eds. Peter Collier and Helga Geyer-Ryan. Cambridge: Polity P. 1990. pg 179-202.
*Eagleton , Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford Blackwell, 1996.

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