... the day, eventually formed the tradition of women writers that exists today. In addition to the fortitude of women in the eighteen hundreds came the strength of the few established female literary writers who pooled their efforts to form a community and build the women's literary tradition that exists today. In Woolf's essay, she states: "For we think back through our mothers ... the formal introduction into the literary arts at university, as did her male counterparts, gave way to the denial of opportunity to converse on an educated literary scale with her female contemporaries. Furthe...

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... the notion that some of the beliefs that we upheld in our modern age may have been overlooked in earlier eras, an example of this would be the concept of female representation. The English Canon acts as a guide for scholars as it provides a diverse range of sophisticated texts that are guaranteed to satisfy and enhance cultivated thinking. The gateway to entering ... ...

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... textual representation in order to understand the cultural processes in which gender roles are constructed. In the process the readers deconstruct the ideological binary opposition set up between male and female genders in male dominated patriarchal culture. Marxist literary theory also develops a critical attitude in the readers and enables them to recognize and question the authority of hegemonic groups which set ... ...

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