Canon (fiction) | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 35 pages of analysis & critique of Canon (fiction).

Canon (fiction) | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 35 pages of analysis & critique of Canon (fiction).
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SOURCE: “Introduction: Gender, Theory, and the Crisis of the Canon,” in Gender, Theory, and the Canon, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1991, pp. 3-23.

In the following excerpt, Winders discusses the influence of gender and theory on canon formation, suggesting that canonical works should be read by the postmodern critic in terms of history, culture, and gender.

Être à la fois un universitaire et un intellectuel c'est essayer de faire jouer un type de savoir et d'analyse qui est enseigné et reçu dans l'université de façon à modifier non seulement la pensée des autres mais aussi la sienne propre. Ce travail de modification de sa propre pensée et de celle des autres me paraît être la raison d'être des intellectuels.

—Michel Foucault

By feminist, one understands a way of reading texts that points to the masks of truth with which phallocentrism hides its fictions.

—Peggy...

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