Feminist Literary Criticism

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This paper evaluates the foundations of three pieces of differing literary works of women through the eyes of feminist literary criticism. It begins by defining the theory of feminist criticism in its various forms. The paper analyzes "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "How to Talk to a Hunter," written by Pam Houston and "The Sparkling Bitch," written by Pauline Melville.

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"Among these three works are three completely differing context and writing styles, though they can be drawn together through two divergent and connected sets of feminist literary criticism to be shown to demonstrate communication barriers in relationships between men and women. This work creates a sense of the whole of the works value by assessing each work with both the ideals of great love for the expression of women through literature and the evaluation of how women's literature clearly identifies both old and new avenues of oppression, by the patriarchal society. In The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) the expression of the feminie as helpless is complete, in How to Talk to a Hunter (1990) the modern assessment of how to interpret the messages of a relationship is discussed universally and in The Sparkling Bitch the complete disconnection of an individual man from his wife is detailed as an example of the disconnect the patriarchal society has from the feminine. (Cavalcanti 152)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cavalcanti, Ildney. "Utopias of/f Language in Contemporary Feminist Literary Dystopias." Utopian Studies 11.2 (2000): 152.
• Fludernik, Monika. The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) available online at: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman/The_Yellow_Wallpaper/The_Yellow_Wallpaper_p1.html.
• Herndl, Diane Price. Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
• Houston, Pam "How to Talk to a Hunter" in Cowboys Are My Weakness New York: Washington Square Press. 1990.

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