ENGL 1003H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Perfect And Imperfect Rhymes, Rationality, Mary Sidney
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Feminist literary criticism: critiques the generally poor poor presentation of women by male authors & seeks to reinterpret women characters in more positive ways ( rst wave feminism) Focus on women writers and their place within the literary canon" advocating for greater representation in educational practice (2nd wave) Dickinson: a woman giving vice to her own experience & imagination against the expectations of what women are (supposed to be) and what there poetry. Julian of norwich: rst recorded work by a woman. Julian wrote a book about 16 visions of christ. Her simplicity and passivity in transcribing the word of god. He shows her little things so that she might understand his greatness. Dedicated her poems to the memory of her brother who began translating the psalms but died before completion. Anna laetitia barbauld the mouse"s petition (1773) Christina rossetti in an artist"s studio (1856)
