... lenses are helpful to view texts in different viewpoints. The lens that was chosen for the novel is the feminist lens. Feminist literary criticism views literature to see how the culture, economy, politics, and society in the text oppress women . Anderson communicates the power that ... men hold over women through the characters, themes, symbols and imagery in relation to the Feminist Lens. In the novel Speak characters play a critical role in helping the reader see ... The characters that Anderson creates aids the reader to visualize the different gender roles, in our patriarchal soc...

• Word Count: 1774
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... it might include works by lesbians, feminists, and women writers in general. According to Elaine Showalter (in 20th Century Literary Theory, p. 216 - 220)3, gynocriticism is concerned with "woman as the producer of textual meaning, with the history, themes, genres, and structures of literature by women. Its subjects include the psychodynamics of female creativity; linguistics and the problem ... of a female language; the trajectory of the individual or collective female literary career; literary history; and, of course, studies of particular writers and works." Logocentrism ... lives an...

• Word Count: 1975
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to convey ideas of history, politics, religion, and their own beliefs. In Theresa Kyung Cha's Dictee she uses not only the autobiographical format, but many different non-conventional types of literary techniques. All of these mixed together foster new ideas in the mind of the reader and open the eyes of writers to explore a new kind of creativity. One of the ... interesting themes in Dictee coupled with the autobiographical form is the constant mention and both obvious and underlying theme of Catholicism. Though the brief mentions of Catholicism occur sporadically throughout the novel ...

• Word Count: 1416
• Approx Pages: 6

... the mid eighteen hundreds it had become firmly established in England as well. Such important Victorian novels as Great Expectations, base themselves on this form, which continues as an important literary sub-genre even today. The Bildungsroman typically told the story of a man growing from boyhood to adulthood. Charlotte Bronte's appropriation of the form for her heroine, represents one of the ... analysis as that of a man. Through a careful reading of Chapter one, this essay will attempt to suggest ways in which, in the light of my understanding of the novel; key themes and issues are...

• Word Count: 1705
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

... of view of showing the width and the diversity of this field. However, one issue seems to outstand from the topics of post-colonialism with its importance and influence on literary theory and it is the issue of feminism. Feminist theory and post-colonial theory have much in common; women and the colonised races and cultures both share the politics of ... standard use of the English language is violated in this process which seems to counterbalance "the cultural and economic violence perpetrated by the colonizer" (256). Katrak continues with enumarating the themes and content of women writ...

• Word Count: 2486
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the relationship of Rosalind and Orlando and Rosalind's disguise as Ganymede. To do this one needs to discover the meaning behind the name Ganymede. The name Ganymede has social and literary connotations and suggests male to male desire. Ganymede was a young boy from mythology that Jove fell in love with. The boy replaced Jove's wife as his lover. In Shakespearean times ... multi-gender eroticism in this play. She goes on to point out that transvestism was widespread in this period as it was in the Renaissance. It would appear that homoerotic themes in As You Like It (Greenblatt, ed., p...

• Word Count: 1317
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School