ENGC54H3 Lecture : lecture 3
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Virginia woolf, a room of one"s own. Some really don"t like this, because heavily invested in empowering women"s voices and their experiences because historically they have been silenced and have not been represented. Woolf"s rhetorical structure is a failure in some eyes. Some like the questioning of the i The notion of value because of who is the speaker is considered part of the patriarchal ideology. E. g. woman as mirror reflecting man as twice his size: deconstruction of the hierarchical binary. Since 1928 there has been a growing tradition. Chapter 4 she begins to talk about genre. When women begin to start talking in mass, they write novels. Suited to women because of the material conditions, their lives, which are characterized by constantly being interrupted. A new form in the 18th century, no rules and regulations with classical structure. Didn"t have formal university education - didn"t learn latin and greek. She doesn"t just give a list, she judges them.
