... a resisting rather than an assenting reader and, by this refusal to assent, to begin the process of exorcizing the male mind that has been implanted in us."1 On the thematic level, then, the reader rejects stereotypes and examines woman as a theme in literary works. The feminist reader should identify with female characters and their concerns. The object is to provide a critique of phallocentric assumptions and an analysis of patriarchal visions or ... characters in literature. This type of critical discourse often takes an explicitly and aggressively ideological stance, stressing the i...

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... was a rejection of old ideals such as Marxism, Freudianism, and the Enlightenment Project. The literature of the period by authors such as Pynchon, Barthes, and Nabokov blended genres so as to avoid traditional classification, and the movement was also seen in Warhol's pop art, the musical compositions of John Cage, and the films of Jean-Luc Godard. The value of the term is debated; some welcome it as a liberation from ... of psychical impotence, of which Paul is a classic victim, offers a valuable key to a coherent understanding of the novel and the way in which it is structured. The ex...

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