Theory & Criticism

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This paper serves as a discussion of the points being made related to theory and criticism. The writer uses selected writings of Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to illustrate the theories.

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"If we look at the criticism and theories of Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin and Henry Louis Gates Jr., we see how socio-political influences impact literature and art. In the case of Woolf and Gates we see that socio-political influence often silences or distorts art works by those marginalized by mainstream socio-political groups. This is true with women in the sixteenth century, as Woolf argues as it was true of African Americans in the ... "

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