Essays Tagged: "Elaine Showalter"

"Dickinson and God - Who was Emily Dickinson's God?"

lly lets the reader know that part of the reasons she rejects the church is for herself.One critic, Elaine Showalter, claims that some of the language Dickinson uses in the poem "It might be lonelier, ... by going to a church and praying with others, Dickinson stays at home and follows God her own way. Elaine Showalter comments, "In her poetry she contends with God and what he stands for, seeking a sp ...

(12 pages) 170 1 4.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

FEMINISM

iarchy which promotes sexual inequality, specifically as represented in literature by male writers. Elaine Showalter termed this androtexts.1980s feminism: began to draw on other theories and to focus ... of female experience by constructing new canon of women's writing. Showalter termed this gynotexts.Elaine Showalter's A Literature of Their OwnFeminine phase (1840-80), women writers imitate dominant ...

(2 pages) 237 4 4.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

20th Century Literary Theory, Feminist & Structuralist Theories

con are 2 important names for French feminism as these 2 were the ones affected all post structures.Elaine Showalter is also an important name for feminist theory. His own theory for feminist writing ...

(6 pages) 105 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Critical Thinking: The Actively Sick

t remain not provable".3. By citing the book "Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media," by Elaine Showalter, author claims that CFS is nothing but a "hysterical disease".4. Finally, author co ... ggest assumption of this article is author's belief in the correctness of the theories provided by "Elaine Showalter" in her book "Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media". This assumption is ...

(5 pages) 84 0 4.5 Jun/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Charlotte Perkins Gilman vs. the Narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

07 .Kessler, Carol Parley. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860 -1935." Modem American Women Writers. Ed. Elaine Showalter, et al. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000. 155 -169.Perkins Gilman, Charlotte ...

(4 pages) 48 0 3.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Womens writing the powe and th

feminine in men." (Ibid).Cultural studies has though extended itself towards pulp fiction, soapies Elaine Showalter concept of gynocritics "woman as writer - with woman as the producer of textual mea ...

(9 pages) 67 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Title of my essay:Psychoanalysis of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. My essay is about the analysis of the book Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte

a brutal savage with no human nature. The American critic E. P. Whipple uses "a deformed monster" (Elaine Showalter 141) to depict Heathcliff. In fact, many critics have held the same opinions as Whi ... always the focus of critics' debates. The American critic E. P. Whipple uses "a deformed monster" (Elaine Showalter, 141) to depict Heathcliff. However, Heathcliff is not totally vicious and evil. He ...

(23 pages) 18 0 5.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature