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English Essay 2 (FEMINISM (Questions? (Masculinity and femininity?…
English Essay 2
FEMINISM
...the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women" (Tyson).
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"...this critique strives to expose the explicit and implicit misogyny in male writing about women" (Richter 1346).
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Gender issues play a part in every aspect of human production and experience, including the production and experience of literature, whether we are consciously aware of these issues or not (91)
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Questions?
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Male and female roles?
Dracula
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Skilled, Tracks down Dracula in london
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Shown to contrasts lucy's dependence on men, whereas lucy succumbs to Dracula and his disease Mina uses it to her advantage.
Even still, some reservations are had towards her- possibly highlights injustice? Mina is told hunting for Dracula is no place for a woman. This is after she does all the work in tracking him down
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NEW HISTORICISM
reconnect a work with the time period in which it was produced and identify it with the cultural and political movements of the time
New historicists do not believe that we can look at history objectively, but rather that we interpret events as products of our time and culture and that "...we don't have clear access to any but the most basic facts of history...our understanding of what such facts mean...is...strictly a matter of interpretation, not fact"
Dulce Et Decorum Este.
Anti- Propaganda, anti-status quo and establishment
Huge war desertions had taken place, with soldiers refusing to fight.
An Anti-war poem and a retort to jesse pope's "the Call", Ends with calling the phrase that is the namesake of the poem, "that old lie".
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War enthusiasm by this point has dropped, People are beginning
to adopt a more anti-war stance
This is reflected in the media, while they weren't actually allowed to criticism the war they began by posting on the front page the list of all the casualties who had died since the last issue.
Rise of the media, Photographs, films etc- People are able to get a vision of what war is really like for possibly the first time.
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The Call.
Beginning of the war
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Diminutive use of the word laddie, playing on the expectations of brave men that was expected at the time.
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MARXISM
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Whom does it benefit if the work or effort is accepted/successful/believed, etc.?
What is the social class of the author?
Which class does the work claim to represent?
What values does it reinforce?
What values does it subvert?
What conflict can be seen between the values the work champions and those it portrays?
What social classes do the characters represent?
How do characters from different classes interact or conflict?
INTRODUCTION
Why do you need it?
Context of a work is important to understanding its meaning and its value as a piece of literature, for example, a novel that subtly pushes feminist values during a time where women were oppressed could be seen as more important that a typical novel from the era
Character Depth
Evaluating characters under predefined lenses and examining their behavior can add greater depth to them.
While the different areas of literary criticism argue for why their particular view is important literary criticism is important in a wider sense because...
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