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GLOSSARY3
Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| language associated with authority, order, fathers, repression and control; maintains the fiction that the self is fixed and unified (julia kristeva). | SYMBOLIC |
| a critical practice that examines representations of women literature by men and women. | FEMINIST CRITICISM |
| male equivalent or complement. | MALE COUNTERPART |
| the term for women’s writing in french feminist theory. it describes how women’s writing is a specific discourse closer to the body, to emotions and to the unnameable, all of which are repressed by the social contract. | ÉCRITURE FÉMININE |
| a critical practice that explores the question of whether there is a female language or écriture féminine (a feminine practice of writing) and whether men can practice that writing too. | FEMINIST CRITICISM |
| (plural) has come to denote the ______ (the “I” of an alter ego) who speaks in a poem or novel or other form of literature. | PERSONAE |
| (feminist criticism) the male author must “kill his father” in order to survive and become his own person. | OEDIPAL STRUGGLE |
| model, example. | PARADIGM |
| stern advice uttered by a male monarch | KINDLY ADMONITIONS |
| a system of male authority which oppresses women through its social, political, and economical institutions. | PATRIARCHAL |
| a critical practice that goes back to psychoanalysis to continue exploring male and female identity. | FEMINIST CRITICISM |
| the ways in which all utterances (written or spoken) refer to other utterances, since words and linguist/gramm structures pre-exist the individual speaker and speech ()as when a writer sets out to quote from or allude to the works another | INTERTEXTUALLY |
| term that defines a woman as a matter of biology (t. moi) | FEMALE |
| a critical practice that re-writes the canon and seek to rediscover womenauthored texts (rethinks the canon for the rediscovering of texts written by women). | FEMINIST CRITICISM |
| convers the use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, states of mind and any sensory or extra-sensory experience. an image does not necessarily mean a mental picture. | IMAGERY |
| the struggle for identity by male poets who feel threatened by the achievements of their predecessors. | ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE |
| literally, criticism of women. the term was coined in english by elaine showalter to describe a literary-critical presumption that feminist criticism would focus its attention on the works of women writers. | GYNOCRITICS |
| a critical practice that re-asses women´s lives (revalue women experience). | FEMINIST CRITICISM |
| books written by men (elaine showalter). | ANDROTEXTS |
| write | ATTEMPT THE PEN |
| books written by women (e. showalter). | GYNOTEXTS |
| the male author‟s fear that he is not his own creator and that previous male authors have priority over his writings. | ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE |
| a critical practice that questions constructions of women as “other”, as “lack”, as part of “nature”. | FEMINIST CRITICISM |
| a set of cultural defined characteristics typical of women (t. moi) | FEMININE |
| the evocation of one sense in terms of another. | SYNESTHESIA |
| standardized, simplified and fixed conception (according to gubert and gilbert, female writer is reduced to stereotypes by her male precursor). | STEREOTYPES |
| the woman author’s fear that she is unable to create or that writing will destroy her. | ANXIETY OF AUTHORSHIP |
| literally, woman-centred. in critical practice, it refers to the presumption that the reader and the writer of a literary work are both female, and that the critical act is also aimed towards the woman reader. | GYNOCENTRISM |
| a critical practice that asks whether men and women are essentially (because biologically) different, or whether difference is one more social construct. | FEMINIST CRITICISM |
| a critical practice that challenges hierarchies (power rations) in writing and in real life with a view to breaking them down, seeing reading as a political act and exposing patriarchy. | FEMINIST CRISTICISM |
| a reference to another work of literature or art, to a person or an event | ALLUSION |
| a political position | FEMINIST |
| characterized not by logical order but by displacement, slippage and condensation which suggest a much loser and randomized way of making connections (J. Kristeva) | SEMIOTIC |
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