Reference:
Review Excerpts 'In proposing gender as a basic problem and an essential category in cultural and historical analysis, feminists have recast the issue of
women's relative identity as equally an issue for men, who, upon ceasing to be mankind, become, precisely, men. Thus gender has
emerged as a problem that is always implicit in any work. It is a quality of the literary voice hitherto masked by the static of common
assumptions. And as a critical category gender is an additional lens, or a way of lifting the curtain to an unseen recess of the self and of
society. Simply put, the perspective of gender enhances the critical senses; let us try to see how' (265).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | analysis | category | gender |
identity |
implicit |
literary |
perspective |
problem |
quality |
'Gender is both an embedded assumption and functions as a touchstone for others.... From the perspective of gender, ... a critic sees
both deeper and more broadly. Both the views may also appear more obstructed, exactly the enhancement of critical vision seeming to
hinder it, or to interpose a mew obstacle between critic and text' (272).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | assumption | embedded | gender |
perspective |
text |
'Because an ideology of gender is basic to virtually all thought while, by most thinkers, unrecognized as such, gender criticism often
has a confrontational edge. One has to read for gender; unless it figures explicitly in story or poem, it will seldom read for itself. On the other
hand "interpretation" is an ambiguous word meaning both to translate and to explain. Literary interpretation does both inextricably ... They
also interpret who only think to explicate. Literary criticism involves action as much as reflection, and reading for gender makes the deed
explicit.... The term "gender" in literary criticism refers to a set of concerns and also to a vocabulary ... that contributes its own meanings to
everything that is said or written' (273).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | action | criticism | gender |
ideology |
interpretation |
literary |
meaning |
reading |
term |
thought |
vocabulary |
word |
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