Mimetic Crititcism/ WORLD
Images of Women Criticism/Feminist
Critique
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How does art/ literature portray
women? What roles are women allotted/ allowed?
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What stereotypes about women
does the work perpetuate?
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Are women accurately portrayed?
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To what degree is art responsible
for presenting positive role models?
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Is the work idealistic or misogynistic?
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What is the relation of women
to nature? Emotions? The body?
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How has the history of women's
situation affect the presentation of women in literature/art?
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How does the work critique
or change traditional views of women, especially Freudian, Jungian or archetypal
perspectives?
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To what degree do cultural
perceptions of gender differences affect literary works?
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Objective Criticism/ THE
WORK
Reassessment
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Is there such a thing as a
female language or style? Does it come from the body or from social and
historical sources?
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How is the language, form,
structure, or style of a work influenced by the writer's gender? (Is there
such a thing as a "woman's sentence"?
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Are there typical images, themes,
or literary strategies employed by women writers?
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How is the work of art connected
to other disciplines and contexts, such as psychology, history, politics
etc.?
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Pragmatic Criticism/
AUDIENCE
Feminist Reader-Response/ Canon-Busting
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What gender of a reader does
a work imply, require, or favor?
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What happens if you assume
the reader is a woman?
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Does gender a/effect reading?
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How do men and women read differently?
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Can a man read as a woman?
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Why have some works "lasted"
and been reread and republished while others (written by women) have vanished?
What role does gender play in literary reputation and canon formation?
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Are there such things as "feminine
genres"
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Why do women read romances?
Are such books "good? for them"
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Expressionist
Criticism/ AUTHOR
Recovery , Gynocriticism
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Do women create differently
from men?
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Is any apparent difference
biological or social?
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How have historical conditions
affected women's ability to write?
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How do women writers relate
to the gender of their precursors? Are they intimidated by male models?
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How do women writers relate
to previous women writers?
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Is there such a thing as a
female tradition?
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Why have women writers specialized
so much in fiction? What are the special theoretical problems for women
writing poetry?
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