Essays on Feminist Literary Criticism

Through the perspective of the film, The Birds directed by Alfred Hitchcock brought up the point of femininity. In the opening scene one of the protagonist Melanie Daniels comes across Mitch Brenner. It is inferred that he is a wealthy man that lies across the...

Children’s literature novels of the 20th century portrayed a general theme of women in traditional women domestic roles. The cliché of a 1950 perfect housewife is recognisable in almost every novel; the batch-baking women in their frilly gowns and puffed sleeves. It was a time...

It is paramount to first define femininity, before we can identify whether works of literature present it as a performance, and not a natural mode of being. The definition of femininity changes with the decades. In the 1920s a feminine appearance was considered to be...

Introduction Children’s literature is fundamental when it comes to developing the child’s comprehension capacity, to acquire new knowledge and when interacting with other children or adults. In a few words, it can be said that children’s literature is important since it contributes to the child’s...

In the contemporary era literary criticism, terms related to ‘feminism’, ‘feminist reading’ ‘feminist’ writing’ and ‘feminist criticism’ or ‘gynocriticism’ as Elaine Showalter associate it, nowadays have become passwords. What is feminism? According to Oxford Dictionary, the term feminist persist in the modern period of the...

The way that literature is approached can be critical to the ways in which it is interpreted by the reader. The literary lens, a genre of literary criticism, is a method used to understand a text from varying points of view. By looking at certain...