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	Literary
		Feminist literary interpretation Feminist literary interpretation is a form of literary theory.
		Literary element A literary element (or element of literature) is an individual aspect or characteristic of a whole wor...
		Literary language A literary language is a syntax from the language used in speech.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/literary.html (531 words)

	Literary theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism.
		One of the fundamental questions of literary theory is "What is literature?", though many contemporary theorists and literary scholars believe either that the term "literature" is undefinable or that it can potentially refer to any use of language.
		Since then, and as of 2004, the controversy over the use of theory in literary studies has all but died out, and discussions on the topic within literary and cultural studies tend now to be considerably milder and less acrimonious.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Literary_theory (1551 words)

	Interpretation
		Abstract interpretation Abstract interpretation is a theory of sound approximation of the control structure, flow of inf...
		Bohm interpretation The Bohm interpretation of Copenhagen interpretation).
		Copenhagen interpretation The Copenhagen interpretation is the mainstream quantum mechanics.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/interpretation.html (342 words)

	Feminist Interpretation
		For centuries interpreters have explored and exploited this male language to articulate theology; to shape the contours and content of the church, synagogue and academy; and to instinct human beings -- female and male -- in who they are, what roles they should play, and how they should behave.
		A feminist approach, with attention to reader response, interprets the story on behalf of the concubine as it calls to remembrance her suffering and death.
		Interpreting such stories of terror on behalf of women is surely, then, another way of challenging the patriarchy of Scripture.
	www.geocities.com /dinbilim/Triblefeminist.html (2258 words)

	Introduction to Literary Interpretation
		The interpreter is expected to hold a greater level of knowledge of the subject he or she is interpreting.
		Literary interpretation essentially begins the moment an author publishes a book, for at that moment there is a need for someone to bridge the gap between the imaging audience created by the author, and the imagined voice of the author created by the audience.
		Literary interpretation is the activity of bringing forth the meaning of a text.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/dale/601/fields/interpretation.htm (1935 words)

	Feminist Aesthetics
		Feminists in general have concluded that, despite the seemingly neutral and inclusive theoretical language of philosophy, virtually all areas of the discipline bear the mark of gender in their basic conceptual frameworks.
		Feminist artists have challenged the ideas that art's main value is aesthetic, that it is for contemplation rather than use, that it is ideally the vision of a single creator, that it should be interpreted as an object of autonomous value (Devereaux 1998).
		Feminist interpretations are sometimes informed by Marxism and its varieties; and as we have already noted in the case of film and theories of the gaze, psychoanalytic theories have been widely appropriated in critical theory.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/feminism-aesthetics (8057 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Feminist Detective Fiction
		“Feminist,” although open to a range of interpretations itself, inexorably implies a transformative intention, whether the institutions to be assailed be the social construction of gender, the patriarchal social order, or only inequities in opportunity for bourgeois individuals in late capitalism.
		Her feminist consciousness is limited to the difficulties that social expectation, whether embodied in male obstruction or feminine submission, puts in her path.
		Feminist detective fiction has become, certainly in terms of its readership, a phenomenon of the mainstream, (even some lesbian detectives, or their creators using heterosexual protagonists, have moved from marginal to mass market publishers) with the latest Grafton or Patricia Cornwell serial routinely marketed for, and duly appearing on, the bestseller lists.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=382 (2231 words)

	Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History - - Feminist Literary Criticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Feminist literary criticism can be defined as the study of literature by women, or the interpretation of any text written with an attention to gender dynamics or a focus on female characters.
		Many of the histories of feminist literary criticism by womanist or feminist critics of color are often less individualist in their focus.
		The enormous growth of feminist literary criticism in the 1980s and its current multiracial character coincide ironically with a decade of governmental rollbacks in progressive social policy that arose in the 1960s and 1970s.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/women/html/wh_013300_feministlite.htm (726 words)

	Feminist Readings
		These early feminist critics set out to demonstrate that the male experience as reader, writer, and critic is different from, and sometimes alien to, the female experience.
		Much of feminist criticism has focused on either biographical criticism of rediscovering female authors or on the establishment of an alternative historical criticism that ties literary events to feminist social concerns as well as to male ones.
		Feminist literary criticism should be of particular concern to those who work with youth literature because this is a form of literature through which predominately female authors, editors, teachers, librarians, and parents share cultural values with young readers.
	www.scils.rutgers.edu /~kvander/Feminist/femread.html (1307 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 46, No.2 - July 1989 - ARTICLE - Feminist Biblical Interpretation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Interpretive constraints of what would be imaginable or probable for speakers and hearers in a particular ancient patriarchal culture are thus to be given considerable weight in assessing literary design, as well as in deciding which textual clues to focus on and how to assess their significance and meaning.
		Feminists engaged in biblical studies are acutely aware of the influence of the Bible on Western culture.
		Suppose, for example, that a Christian feminist has based her view of herself on a life-giving interpretation of Genesis 2-3 that says that the woman corresponds to the man in creation and that the woman's conversation with the snake was not the beginning of sin.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1989/v46-2-article3.htm (6792 words)

	Literary Criticism
		Although each approach's literary theory and accompanying methodology are still developing, a brief overview of the central tenets of each of the three approaches will enable us to catch a glimpse of their diverse visions of literature's purposes and functions in today's world.
		Striving to develop a philosophical basis of feminist literary theory, gender studies re?examines the canon and questions traditional definitions of the family, sexuality, and female reproduction.
		As with feminist theory, the goal of gender studies is to analyze and challenge the established literary canon.
	www.nku.edu /~peers/literarycriticism.htm (3395 words)

	Feminist interpretation of the Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A group of feminists in the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature decided to make use of the annual meetings to develop a project of feminist hermeneutics (theories of interpretation), seeking to clarify for themselves and for others the distinctive character of feminist interpretation.
		The published papers from this 1980 meeting 5 indicate that there is a second marginality experienced by feminist biblical scholars: They are marginal to a great deal of feminist scholarship because they continue to uphold the value of the biblical materials in spite of their patriarchal bias against women.
		Her conclusion is that the exegesis is feminist, not in the way she used techniques of historical and literary criticism but in "the concerns, questions, and sensitivities" she brought to the task.
	www.didyouknow.cd /Bible/interpretation.htm (2045 words)

	Feminist Criticism
		Feminist critics take for granted that the structures of gender and sexual differences have been enormously influenced in all areas of human existence.
		A feminist teacher's task is to attempt to unmask gender-based structures and to support students in the process of change and growth that will inevitably begin with that unmasking.
		Like reader-response theory, feminist criticism is personal and reader-centered; it insists that reader and text are inseparable and that perception is interpretation.
	employees.csbsju.edu /akiryakakis/feminist_criticism.htm (290 words)

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		Though the projects of individual critics differ, there is general agreement that interpretation of literature involves critique of patriarchy.
		It also entails the study of a literary tradition of women writers.
		HERMENEUTICS OF TRUST: Interpretive approaches that lend credence to authorial or rhetorical intentionality, that concern themselves with laying bare the verbal sense in all of its dynamics.
	www.assumption.edu /users/ady/HHGateway/Gateway/femlitcrit.html (363 words)

	Literary Criticism and Gender
		Far-reaching demands of feminist critics for revision of the canon, and a new concept of literary history which would not exclude women have been presented.
		The rise of feminist literary criticism is followed along the two main lines of its development, Anglo-American and French feminist thought, with the concepts of gynocritisicm and l’é criture fé minine as the central ones.
		At the end, an insight into relations of feminist literary theory with deconstruction and postmodernism is given, marking spaces of common interest.
	www.ceu.hu /crc/Syllabi/97-98/Gender/lukic.html (1679 words)

	Feminist Book Review
		As I was reading my book on feminist criticism over the break, a (male) friend noticed what I was reading and cringed when he saw the word "feminist." He then asked me, half-jokingly and half-seriously, if feminists hate men and if the feminist movement is all about men bashing.
		Finally, "feminist criticism demandeda radical rethinking of the conceptual grounds of literary study, a revision of the accepted theoretical assumptions about reading and writing that have been based entirely on male literary experiences" (8).
		Feminists and feminist criticism promote the idea that women are indeed creative and have unique powers of self-expression worthy of recognition.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/babo/thompson/bookreview.html (1258 words)

	Literary Criticism
		The History of Literary Criticism: The study of the great tradition of critical commentary, beginning with Plato's attacks on poetry and ending with the writings of some important 20th critics, offers a history in miniature of literature and its sister arts throughout the ages.
		Any canon of prescribed literary works (the basis for a curriculum of study) must by necessity be exclusionary and discriminatory.
		Literary texts, especially from the great tradition, are of little use in helping freshman learn to write; they are too difficult and provide models of written expression that cannot be emulated (or even understood) by underclassmen; better choices would be texts from popular culture, current events, or adolescent literature.
	www.georgiasouthern.edu /~dougt/4538.html (2035 words)

	SchoolNotes.com - Notes Page
		Feminist Theory - is a form of literary interpretation which focuses on applying the principles of Feminism to literature, and is a basic part of literary theory.
		A feminist literary interpretation is largely focused on the roles that women and gender play in a work of literature.
		Similarly, a feminist interpretation will be likely to praise a work which shows women as independent, intelligent, strong, and perhaps even superior to men.
	www.schoolnotes.com /22309/revhawkins.html (2359 words)

	lectio difficilior - What Really Happened to Dinah: A Feminist Interpretation of Genesis 34 (Susanne Scholz)
		Using historical methodologies, the interpretation of renowned Old Testament scholar Gerhard von Rad is an example for the marginalization of the rape and Dinah.
		Interpreting the rape of Tamar in 2 Samuel 13, Phyllis Trible also maintains that the verb does not connote care and support.
		Unlike the suggestion of many interpreters, the brothers are not angry, an externally directed response to the rape.
	www.lectio.unibe.ch /01_2/s.htm (5544 words)

	Whatever: Athena's First Story
		This is a radical change from the author's original meaning that drastically skews the original interpretation.
		The word "out" strengthens the suggestion that this was not a single trip to the forest, but one of many "outings", a frequent escape from the trials and tribulations of sophisticated society to the simplicity of the primordial wood.
		It is shoddy misinterpretations like these that prove that we should all do well to appreciate the literary classics in their original language whenever possible, if we wish to understand the author's true message.
	www.scalzi.com /whatever/003157.html (2396 words)

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		The best interpretations are those which seek out ambiguities in the text and then resolve these ambiguities as a part of demonstrating the organic unity of the text
		Unlike traditional historicists, new historicists insist that all interpretation is subjectively filtered through one's own set of historically conditioned viewpoints.
		She acknowledged that some interpretations were better than others.
	www.assumption.edu /users/ady/HHGateway/Gateway/Approaches.html (2083 words)

	Literary Criticisms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Feminist criticism can be seen as a paradigm for the new literary criticisms.
		The starting point of feminist criticism is of course not the given texts but the issues and concerns of feminism as a world view and as a political enterprise.
		Feminist criticism uses a variety of approaches and encourages multiple readings, rejecting the notion that there is a 'proper way' to read a text as but another expression of male control of texts and male control of reading.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~gcanning/gd1/resources/hist_phil/theory/litcrit.html (1235 words)

	Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
		A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text, e.g., with the biography or psychology of the author or the work's relationship to literary history.
		Hermeneutics sees interpretation as a circular process whereby valid interpretation can be achieved by a sustained, mutually qualifying interplay between our progressive sense of the whole and our retrospective understanding of its component parts.
		Early projects in feminist theory included resurrecting women's literature that in many cases had never been considered seriously or had been erased over time (e.g., Charlotte Perkins Gilman was quite prominent in the early 20th century but was virtually unknown until her work was "re-discovered" later in the century).
	www.kristisiegel.com /theory.htm (5967 words)

	Powell's Books - Colette by Julia Kristeva
		Paying particularattention to the language the French writer used to say the unsayable and name the unnameable, Kristeva offers an elegant and sophisticated critique of Colette's psychological conflicts, particularly her sexual relationships and how these conflicts are both recorded in and resolved through the act of writing.
		The impression that remains is of a woman intent on experiencing the world's pleasures — its jouissance — in a melding with the world's flesh.
		She says Collette found a language to express the interplay between her sensations, desires, and anxieties and the infiniteness of the world; and that transcended her presence as a women of her century.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0231128967-1 (736 words)

	Religion 100 Texts
		Consideration will be given to the manner in which the biblical text, the biblical context, and the interpreter of the Bible interact.
		These papers are to be typed, fully annotated, inclusive in the use of language, and presented as formal interpretations of biblical texts.
		Paper four shall be a summary and integration of the insights, perspectives, and conclusions of papers 1, 2, and 3.
	www4.cord.edu /religion/aag-213D.htm (467 words)

	Feminist Criticism
		Great introduction to the feminist approach to the Bible - Athalya Brenner has pulled together an impressive array of Biblical scholars for this volume of essays.
		Feminist Perspectives on the Foundation Subjects of Law...
		- Phillis Trible, a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, is a noted authority on feminist interpretation and literary analysis of biblical stories of the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament.
	www.growinglifestyle.co.uk /uk/j157771 (444 words)

	Powell's Books - Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman by Ruth Gruber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 1935, while Virginia Woolf was alive and building her career as a woman writer, Ruth Gruber published a seminal essay on the novelist that is now seen as the first feminist interpretation of Woolf‛s writings and life.
		She cogently examines Woolf‛s concept of gender and her literary influences, adeptly discussing how Woolf constructed a feminine writing style in a realm dominated by men.
		The seventieth anniversary edition of the first feminist literary interpretation of the life and work of Virginia Woolf.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0786715340-0 (258 words)

	ENGL 383: FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jane Eyre, one of the galvanizing texts of feminist literary criticism, as our starting point, we will go on to read a range of critical essays exemplifying the scope and diversity of feminist critical methodologies; we will also examine some of its underlying—and often problematic—assumptions.
		Film Analysis (15%): For this assignment (5 pp.), you will choose a film that you consider to be feminist, and interpret that film through the lens (pun intended) of feminist critical theory.
		Joyce Zonana, “The Sultan and the Slave: Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of
	www.holycross.edu /departments/english/smaurer/HC383sylweb.htm (1299 words)

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