ENGL 2Q99 Lecture Notes - Elaine Showalter, Social Construction Of Gender, Performativity
26 Feb 2013
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Attempt to define causes restrictive choices to be made. Impossible to create any kind of static definition. Typically used in for women and by women audience senses. For 2q99, our texts are restricted to lit written by women. * widespread education of women uncommon until 19th and 20th centuries. English as a taught subject (debated but emerged around 1840, do not confuse with rhetoric-art of argumentation) Looked at latin and myth but not contemporary writing. * poetry up until 20th century was a male format novels consumed more by women. * canon and canon formation: social and political formation led to this. * literary canon artificial set of plays/poems, etc. Most agree this is the best that literature has to offer, placed in the cannon in order from best to worst. * only one person decides on what is good and canonized but then others might not feel the same way about the text.
