Feminist literary criticism Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 5 pages of analysis of Feminism and Toril Moi.

Feminist literary criticism Essay | Essay

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Feminism and Toril Moi

Summary: Feminist criticism of the late 1960s could be classified into two divisions; The Anglo Americans who emphasized on recovering, reprinting and revaluating the work; and the French emphasis upon the feminists' literary language.


Feminist criticism appeared in Europe and America in the late 1960s. In fact, most scholars were women, so this movement could easily make its way and became influential. It aims at exploring women's rule in the western cultures:

" One serious cultural obstacle encountered by any feminist writer is that each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere ......... women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, erratic, orphaned of any tradition of its own " 1

Such a trend was taken into account, rejected by male critics and writers, so their task was definitely hard to prove their ideas and their existence as critics; they had to reread women's works. The feminist criticism could be diverged into two divisions; The Anglo Americans who emphasized on recovering, reprinting and revaluating the work. The other division is a French stress upon the literary language by...

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