characteristics of romanticism

Uncovering of relationships of domination and exploitation, even when they are disguised in idealistic terms

seeing if it encourages good out of the reader.

focusing on Embracing Individualism and diversity

• 'Gendered' language and symbols. • Stereotypical or unconventional portrayals of female characters. • How the gender of a reader can affect their response to a text

Focusing on Women's suffrage, Property rights and Political candidacy.

analysis include rhyme, rhythm, intonation, and phonic elements and patterns with their impacts on meanings and interpretations.

methods in feminism

asks about systems of social and economic power through literary and cultural works.

Explores gender inequality, aiming to understand its roots and nature.

focusing on Reducing inequalities in: sex, family, workplace, reproductive rights, De facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities

emerged during the first half of the twentieth century and devoted its attention to concentrating on literature's formal structures in an objective manner

type of literary critique that judges the value of the Literature based on its lessons or ethical teachings

about all genders having equal rights and opportunities.

formalism for poetry

you have to look at the experiences presented and the the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

focusing on Combating Sexual harassment, assault and

Mines the text for certain common themes or patterns. method of interpreting and analyzing such things as language, literature, and society, which focuses on contrasting ideas or elements of structure and attempts to show how they relate to the whole structure.

focused on emotions and the inner life of the writer.

formalism for prose

Things to consider in moralism

Celebrated primitive and elevated "regular people" as being deserving of celebration.

Fixated on nature as a primordial force and encouraged the concept of isolation as necessary for spiritual and artistic development.

an approach to feminism that understands how the intersecting identities of individual women impact the oppression they face.

Focuses mainly on the structure of the text over subject matter • Everyday language was noticeably different from the literary language.

-a theory of morality, which advocates actions that foster happiness or pleasure and oppose actions that cause unhappiness or harm. -betterment of society as whole.

You may also focus on the historical and cultural inheritance of the passions and struggles of exceptional individuals.

aspects of moralism

respecting diverse women's experiences, identities, knowledge and strengths, and striving to empower all women to realize their full rights

4 waves if feminism

what does new criticism look at

three types of formalism

the extent to which the social and economic background of the author informs the literary text.

Women's labor, such as housework, child-bearing, and rearing, was of significant importance to the functioning of a capitalist society.

argues that women's oppression is linked to the gendered structures of capitalism and the system of private property.

• British and American • A style of criticism that emphasizes the close reading of texts as a self-contained piece of work capable of producing independent meaning, without the of any philosophical, historical or biographical context surrounding the text