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Elaine Showalter

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Biography

Name: Elaine Showalter
Birth Date: January 21, 1941
Nationality: American
Gender: Female

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Biography of Elaine Showalter
3,551 words, approx. 12 pages
One of the founders of feminist criticism and still one of its most important and influential practitioners, Elaine Showalter invented what she calls gynocritics, "concerned with woman as writer--with woman as the producer of textual meaning, with the...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Elaine Showalter Information
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Elaine Showalter (born January 21 , 1941 ) is an American literary critic , feminist , and writer on cultural and social issues. She is one of the founders of feminist literary criticism in United States academia , developing the concept and practice...


News and Journals
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AP News
Achebe wins Booker Prize for fiction
6/13/2007: 606 words, approx. 2 pages
Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first...
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The New York Observer
Waging Laughter Against Atlantic Yards
2/6/2007: 458 words, approx. 2 pages
"Clearly, we're in a losing battle, short of shackling ourselves to the fence," the comedian told The Real Estate. "That doesn't mean we should stop ourselves from trying." Tuesday night, he'll be performing in Park Slope's tweedy hangout Union Hall for Laugh Don't Destroy, a...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Frederick Crews
4,660 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following review, Crews argues that Showalter “builds no conceptual bridge” between her topics in Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture, noting that Showalter's arguments are weak and poorly supported.
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Critical Review by Deirdre English
4,552 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following review, English lauds the central themes of Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage, complimenting the unlikely parallels that Showalter creates between the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Critical Review by Mark S. Micale
3,182 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following review, Micale praises Showalter's examination of feminine hysteria in Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture.
 


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