Dive deep into Feminist Literary Criticism with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion

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New Criticism. A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text, e.g., with the biography or psychology of the author or the work’s relationship to literary history.

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Throughout the novel, Moira’s relationship with Offred epitomizes female friendship. Gilead claims to promote solidarity between women, but in fact it only produces suspicion, hostility, and petty tyranny.

Feminist Ethics and Narrative Ethics. A narrative approach to ethics focuses on how stories that are told, written, or otherwise expressed by individuals and groups help to define and structure our moral universe.

Deconstruction – Deconstruction in literary studies: Deconstruction’s reception was coloured by its intellectual predecessors, most notably structuralism and New Criticism.

Literary Theory “Literary theory” is the body of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature. By literary theory we refer not to the meaning of a work of literature but to the theories that reveal what literature can mean.