English 2307E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Stuart Mill, Literary Theory
12 Dec 2015
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What kind of questions does she ask. How does she position her method in relation to the methods that other thinkers have used. What kind of evidence does she use. Frameworks were there before but didn"t permit us to see what we needed to see. Looking back at an old text from a new critical direction. *keep in mind we are not getting the whole arguments, we are usually getting introductions and excerpts* Appears around the top of page 9 where she begins to articulate it when she says if we want to define the ways in which female self-awareness . The modifying clause is the beginning of the articulation of her objection: to define the way in which something called female self-awareness has defined itself in the english novel. She is drawing our attention to a particular way of thinking. Doesn"t want to just look at a female tradition that says there are women writers not interested.
