Think of the works that “moved” you the most–positively or negatively–and brainstorm about how and why they affected you.
Write a 5+ page paper using at least one critical essay. Cite your sources using MLA or APA format.
Create a valid and substantiated thesis, one that reflects your careful thoughts about the story. Your paper should defend, argue, or assert a position using SPECIFIC events, dialogue, and description from the text. Use your critical articles sparingly to set up a position that you will agree with (and expand), disagree with (and show why), or to diverge from in some way. Consider different critical approaches such as these:
Biographical criticism
Discuss how the story reflects or is influenced by the life of the author.
To speak of “Feminism” as a theory is already a reduction. However, in terms of its theory (rather than as its reality as a historical movement in effect for some centuries) feminism might be categorized into three general groups:
theories having an essentialist focus (including psychoanalytic and French feminism);
theories aimed at defining or establishing a feminist literary canon or theories seeking to re-interpret and re-vision literature (and culture and history and so forth) from a less patriarchal slant (including gynocriticism, liberal feminism); and
theories focusing on sexual difference and sexual politics (including gender studies, lesbian studies, cultural feminism, radical feminism, and socialist/materialist feminism).
Further, women (and men) needed to consider what it meant to be a woman, to consider how much of what society has often deemed inherently female traits, are culturally and socially constructed. Simone de Beauvoir’s study, The Second Sex, though perhaps flawed by Beauvoir’s own body politics, nevertheless served as a groundbreaking book of feminism, that questioned the “othering” of women by western philosophy. 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). Since the 1960s the writings of many women have been rediscovered, reconsidered, and collected in large anthologies of American, British, and World literature as well as specialty collections such as The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.
Maya Angelou is the author to use.
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