Elaine Showalter

Gynocriticism: Gynocriticism, frequently cited in the work of Elaine Showalter, is the study of writing and criticism that reinterprets women’s literary history. It is the study of women’s literary history of women.Showalter called this “History” in attempts to also reinterpret the misguided concept of hysteria of women in literary history. Historically, (prior to the 20th century) women were largely excluded from the public sphere. Thus, their writing was symbolic of that seclusion and tended to

Assignment one – Discuss the significance of Lily Bart’s death at the end of The House of Mirth. You should consider the implications both for the protagonist’s social milieu and for women in general at this point in American history. The significance of Lily Bart’s death. As a writer looking towards the twentieth century Wharton faced the challenge of telling the history of women past the age of thirty. The age of thirty was established as the threshold by nineteenth-century

expose their ideological biases. In its scope, feminist criticism is political. It demonstrates the link between the economic conditions, political hegemony; work-place conditions that influence inform and create gender oppression against women. Elaine Showalter’s works have pioneered in creating a woman-centered literary history in The New Feminist Criticism (1985), Speaking of Gender and Gynocriticism. Look at the history, styles themselves genres and structures of writing by women, the psychodynamic

In Jack Londons’ “To Build A Fire,” a stubborn man with “no imagination” and his wise dog set out on the Yukon trail seeking out his camp in hopes to return and meet up with “the boys.” Being a “chechaquo,” a new comer to the land (Dictionary.com, 2015), this was his first Winter. “It was a clear day and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, a subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. The face did not worry the man.” (London, 629). The

Sociology 113AE Reaction Paper 10/20/05 Selective Perception in Paul Haggis ' Crash Prejudices are the strong backbone to the concept of racism. They are the labels and images that we designate to a group of people on the basis of what we imagine to be the characteristics of all members of that group. More often than not, they are incorrect and incomplete. The film Crash, directed by Paul Haggis, addresses the strong existence of prejudices against many groups from various perspectives

During people’s life they communicate when they were awake, and when they were not talking. In daily life, people often produce a lonely, insignificant, low self-esteem, puzzled feeling, all of these are caused by the lack of communication with the world. In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” he describe how a lonely wife get through the depress by sending tape with a blind man, and how blind man’s visiting her house change the stern type in her husband, in order to let him truly see the world. Carver

In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, there are 29 pilgrims making their way to Canterbury to see the shrine to Thomas A’Becket, who was martyred there. They are accompanied by Chaucer, the narrator, and Harry Bailey, the host. The host proposes a storytelling contest to help pass the time. The Host is the sole judge of the contest, and each story is judged on its entertainment and moral factors. The winner will receive a free meal, paid for by all the other pilgrims upon their arrival back at the inn

A bright array of lights dotted the dark landscape beneath the plane where I sat It was late, around midnight, and the day had stretched beyond measure beginning with customs in the Atlanta airport. About 1:30 a.m. we landed in the airport at San Jose International Airport. I was exhausted but the beauty of the landscape would be only a shimmer of what was to come. The second I stepped off of the plane I felt anxious and hot, very hot. This being my first time outside of the United States was a completely

Absolute happiness. We all have one of those moments where nothing else seems to matters, no worries at all. Someone could dump a bucket of ice cold water on your head and you just wouldn’t care. I was lying on a couch in a beach house in South Carolina next to my best friend. The fact that a hurricane was coming didn’t even bother me. I began to hear the droplets of water smack the windows along with the swooshing of the wind. There is something about the wind that just soothes me, I could’ve

You Don’t Always See with Your Eyes In the story “Cathedral”, author, Raymond Carver, show the readers that a person does not need their eyes to see as sight has a deeper meaning for different people. Within the story, the narrator, husband, describe his experience with his wife’s longtime friend Robert, a blind man who came to visit after losing his own wife to cancer. The story takes place in the husbands home somewhere in the East Coast near Connecticut. As the husband has a drink and waits for