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Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) [1] is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers".
Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American literary critic and teacher and founder of gynocritics, a school of feminist criticism concerned with “woman as writer…with the history, themes, genres, and structures of literature by women.”
Sep 24, 2016 · Elaine Showalter is an influential American critic famous for her conceptualization of gynocriticism, which is a woman-centric approach to literary analysis, Her A Literature of their Own discusses the -female literary tradition which she analyses as an evolution through three phases.
In her essay ‘Toward a Feminist Poetics’, Elaine Showalter categorizes feminist literary theory and criticism as either woman as a reader also known as the feminist critique, or as woman as a writer which is known as gynocriticism. According to Showalter, when a woman is a reader, she absorbs all the works produced by men.
' Toward a Feminist Poetics ' is a groundbreaking essay by Elaine Showalter. The essay was first presented in 1978 as an introductory lecture on the first series on literature and women at University of Oxford. It was published in 1979.
Sep 25, 2016 · A concept introduced by Elaine Showalter in Towards a Feminist Poetics gynocriticism refers to a kind of criticism with woman as writer/producer of textual meaning, as against woman as reader (feminist critique).
Elaine Showalter (b. 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and cultural commentator who pioneered feminist literary criticism in the U.S. with her concept of gynocritics,...
Elaine Showalter's A Literature of Their Own is an academic monograph and work of literary criticism. As such, it exhibits particular characteristics to which readers should pay...
In 1965, when I began to do research for my Ph.D. dissertation on Victorian women writers, feminist criticism did not exist. Virginia Woolf’s letters and diaries were scattered and unpublished. Scholars still called Elizabeth Gaskell “Mrs.” and Frances Burney “Fanny.”
Elaine Showalter has 65 books on Goodreads with 147187 ratings. Elaine Showalter’s most popular book is The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Cul...
