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It foregrounds women’s knowledge and values women’s lived experiences, including how female characters are constructed and how male-centered interpretation shapes literary meaning. The approach reevaluates classic works and interrogates whether society has privileged male authors and their value systems. 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It reads texts through a feminist lens to challenge entrenched assumptions.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does feminist criticism challenge male-centered interpretation?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It examines how female characters are defined to resist a male-centered outlook. 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In addition to challenging assumptions which were thought to be universal, feminist literary criticism actively supports including women's knowledge in literature and valuing women's experiences. The basic methods of feminist literary criticism include:  \n• Identifying with female characters: By examining the way female characters are defined, critics challenge the male-centered outlook of authors. Feminist literary criticism suggests that women in literature have been historically presented as objects seen from a male perspective.  \n• Reevaluating literature and the world in which literature is read: By revisiting the classic literature, the critic can question whether society has predominantly valued male authors and their literary works because it has valued males more than females.  \nEmbodying or Undercutting Stereotypes  \n• Feminist literary criticism recognizes that literature both reflects and shapes stereotypes and other cultural assumptions. Thus, feminist literary criticism examines how works of literature embody patriarchal attitudes or undercut them, sometimes both happening within the same work.  \n• Feminist theory and various forms of feminist critique began long before the formal naming of the school of literary criticism. In so-called first-wave feminism, the \"Woman's Bible,\" written in the late 19th century by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is an example of a work of criticism firmly in this school, looking beyond the more obvious male-centered outlook and interpretation.  \n• During the period of second-wave feminism, academic circles increasingly challenged the male literary canon. Feminist literary criticism has since intertwined with postmodernism and increasingly complex questions of gender and societal roles.  \nTools of the Feminist Literary Critic  \n• Feminist literary criticism may bring in tools from other critical disciplines, such as historical analysis, psychology, linguistics, sociological analysis, and economic analysis. Feminist criticism may also look at intersectionality, looking at how factors including race, sexuality, physical ability, and class are also involved.  \nFeminist literary criticism may use any of the following methods:  \n• Deconstructing the way that women characters are described in novels, stories, plays, biographies, and histories, especially if the author is male  \n• Deconstructing how one's own gender influences how one reads and interprets a text, and which characters and how the reader identifies depending on the reader's gender  \n• Deconstructing how women autobiographers and biographers of women treat their subjects, and how biographers treat women who are secondary to the main subject  \n• Describing relationships between the literary text and ideas about power and sexuality and gender  \n• Critique of patriarchal or woman-marginalizing language, such as a \"universal\" use of the masculine pronouns \"he\" and \"him\"  \n• Noticing and unpacking differences in how men and women write: a style, for instance, where women use more reflexive language and men use more direct language (example:\"she let herself in\" versus \"he opened the door\")  \n• Reclaiming women writers who are little known or have been marginalized or undervalued, sometimes referred to as expanding or criticizing the canon—the usual list of \"important\" authors and works (Examples include raising up the contributions of early playwright Aphra Behn and showing how she was treated differently than male writers from her own time forward, and the retrieval of Zora Neale Hurston's writing by Alice Walker.)  \n• Reclaiming the \"female voice\" as a valuable contribution to literature, even if formerly marginalized or ignored  \n• Analyzing mul","cbCaidlgfTSuekBO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidlgfTSuekBO","pdf",475151,14,"English","# Critical Methodology\n## Identifying with female characters\n## Reevaluating literature and the world\n# Embodying or Undercutting Stereotypes\n# Tools of the Feminist Literary Critic\n## Deconstructing description of women\n## Intersectionality and interdisciplinary tools\n# Methods used in feminist literary criticism\n## Language and pronouns\n## Style differences in men and women\n## Reclaiming marginalized women writers\n# Gynocriticism\n## Definition and key concepts\n## Elaine Showalter’s contribution\n# Brief Overview","[{\"question\":\"What is feminist literary criticism and what perspective does it use?\",\"answer\":\"Feminist literary criticism is literary analysis that arises from the viewpoint of feminism, feminist theory, and/or feminist politics. It reads texts through a feminist lens to challenge entrenched assumptions.\"},{\"question\":\"How does feminist criticism challenge male-centered interpretation?\",\"answer\":\"It examines how female characters are defined to resist a male-centered outlook. It also questions whether women in literature have historically been presented as objects seen from a male perspective.\"},{\"question\":\"What distinguishes feminist literary criticism from gynocriticism?\",\"answer\":\"Feminist literary criticism examines and can deconstruct works of men as well as women, while gynocriticism focuses on women as writers and recording female creativity as part of women’s reality.\"}]","Feminism - Feminist literary criticism - Critical Methodology | PDF",1789989891,22]