http://www.cunterview.net/index.php/Theory-Papers/Feminist-literary-criticism.html (Feminist Literary Criticism)

Feminist Literary Criticism edited from wikipedia

Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or by the politics of feminism more broadly.

Its history has been broad and varied, from classic works of nineteenth-century women authors such as George Eliot and Margaret Fuller to work in women's studies and gender studies.

In the most general and simple terms, feminist literary criticism before the 1970s concerned with the politics of women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within literature.

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http://taslimanasrin.com/index2.html (Taslima Nasreen)

http://www.despardes.com/People/taslima.html (Taslima Nasreen)

Structuralism

European critical movement of the mid-20th century. It is based on the linguistic theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, which hold that language is a self-contained system of signs, and the cultural theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss, which hold that cultures, like languages, can be viewed as systems of signs and analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Central to structuralism is the notion that binary oppositions (e.g., male/female, public/private, cooked/raw) reveal the unconscious logic or "grammar" of a system. Literary structuralism views literary texts as systems of interrelated signs and seeks to make explicit their hidden logic. Prominent figures in the structuralist movement are Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Roman Jakobson, and Roland Barthes. Areas of study that have adopted and developed structuralist premises and methodologies include semiotics and narratology. See also deconstruction.

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http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc79.html (Girish Karnad)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girish_Karnad (Girish Karnad)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism (Magic Realism)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism

http://www.postcolonialweb.org/pakistan/literature/rushdie/rushdieov.html (Post Colonialism / Salman Rushdie)

http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth87 (Salman Rushdie)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism (Structuralism)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/07 (Structuralism)

Notes

Please click on the links below to access the notes according to the topics:

1. http://www.answers.com/topic/the-white-man-s-burden (The White Man's Burden)
2. http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/The_White_Man's_Burden/ (The White Man's Burden)
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe#Things_Fall_Apart (chinua achebe)
4. http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=382 (chinua achebe)
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_colonialism (post colonialism)

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Regards, Saurabh