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Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers".
Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American literary critic and teacher and founder of gynocritics, a school of feminist criticism concerned with “woman as writer…with the history, themes, genres, and structures of literature by women.”
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Sep 24, 2016 · Learn about Showalter's concept of gynocriticism and her analysis of the female literary tradition in three phases: feminine, feminist and female. Explore her categories of feminist criticism: woman as reader and woman as writer.
Professor of English, Emeritus. Email. ecshowalter@gmail.com. Since retiring in 2003, Elaine Showalter has been dividing her time between Washington, D.C. and London, where she was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature.
Elaine Showalter's essay 'Toward a Feminist Poetics' explores the challenges and possibilities of feminist literary criticism in the 1970s. She coins the term "gynocriticism" and distinguishes it from "feminist critique".
Elaine Showalter invented gynocriticism, a feminist critical theory and approach that focuses on the woman writer, the meaning of her text, the structure of literature written by women including its history, themes, genres.
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Elaine Showalter has 64 books on Goodreads with 142954 ratings. Elaine Showalter’s most popular book is The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Cul...
