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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...
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    critically acclaimed feature film The Big Sick. Showalter was born in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of Elaine Showalter (née Cottler), an author, feminist literary...
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  • Gynocriticism or gynocritics is the term coined in the seventies by Elaine Showalter to describe a new literary project intended to construct "a female...
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  • Lectures on Psychoanalysis (PFL 1) p. 414 Elaine Showalter, Hystories (London 1997) p. 158 and p. 148 Showalter, p. 147 Brainerd, C. J. (2013). "Developmental...
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    fashion in the early 1860s. The plot was summarised by literary critic Elaine Showalter (1982): "Braddon's bigamous heroine deserts her child, pushes husband...
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    shootings, Jen penned an op-ed for the Times. In 2009, Princeton's Elaine Showalter devoted much attention to Jen in her survey of American women writers...
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    Wisconsin–Stevens Point Edward R. Schowalter Jr. (1927–2003), American soldier Elaine Showalter (born 1941), American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural...
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  • considered an inappropriate focus on violence rather than sex. Critic Elaine Showalter called The Hunger a "post-modernist vampire film" that "casts vampirism...
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  • found the film more of a comedy than a horror and the finale "funny". Elaine Showalter commented that "the film brilliantly portrays vampirism as a metaphor...
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  • although in Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents, Elaine Showalter discusses C. P. Snow's The Masters, of the previous year, and several...
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  • (1975). Gail Godwin and feminist fiction. The North American Review Elaine Showalter (1981). Rethinking the seventies: Women writers and violence. The Antioch...
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  • it/id/the female unconscious speaks.") American feminist critic and writer Elaine Showalter defines this movement as "the inscription of the feminine body and...
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    advances, he cursed her so that her prophetic warnings would go unheeded. Elaine Showalter called Nightingale's writing "a major text of English feminism, a link...
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  • themes in Jackson's major novels. According to the post-feminist critic Elaine Showalter, Jackson's work is the single most important mid-twentieth-century...
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  • Virginia Woolf, and Marlene Dietrich. Looking back from the 70s, writer Elaine Showalter accused Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group of bisexual chic when she warned...
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  • Gynocriticism was introduced during the time of second wave feminism. Elaine Showalter suggests that feminist critique is an "ideological, righteous, angry...
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  • saying, "What accounts for the wildly divergent reviews of Love?". Elaine Showalter, writing in The Guardian, praised it as "a disarmingly compact, unpompous...
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  • Roy's Place, a popular sandwich shop in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Showalter, Elaine Showalter (10 August 2002). "Emeralds on the home front". TheGuardian.com...
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    International Prize in June 2007. The judging panel included American critic Elaine Showalter, who said he "illuminated the path for writers around the world seeking...
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    Ophelia has also been defended by feminist critics, most notably Elaine Showalter. Ophelia is surrounded by powerful men: her father, brother, and Hamlet...
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  • heard of." Writing in The Washington Post in 2015, literary critic Elaine Showalter was less enthusiastic, noting that she, "along with other female readers...
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    asylum who has "the detached look of the very lost." Literary critic Elaine Showalter imagines a companion piece depicting Science would consist of "a fully...
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  • Rushdie Lorna Sage Edward Said Raphael Samuel Stephen Sedley Tom Shippey Elaine Showalter Iain Sinclair Quentin Skinner Susan Sontag Amia Srinivasan Galen Strawson...
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  • without considerable pain." Writing for The New York Times Book Review, Elaine Showalter praised Jack's dialogue for "winningly" representing his "redemption...
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    Edward Said: The World, the Text, and the Critic; Secular Criticism Elaine Showalter: Toward a Feminist Poetics Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: Infection...
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  • Criticism Cleanth Brooks: New Criticism Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric studies Elaine Showalter: Feminist criticism Sandra M. Gilbert: Feminist criticism Susan Gubar:...
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    divide critics. Elaine Showalter writes that Lucy Westenra and Mina Harker represent different aspects of the New Woman. According to Showalter, Lucy represents...
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  • first few sections of the book covering Bush's childhood and marriage. Elaine Showalter published a review in The Daily Telegraph, in which she noted "this...
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    Antony's College, University of Oxford, 2017. Lorna Sage; Germaine Greer; Elaine Showalter (1999). "Cleeve, Lucas". The Cambridge guide to women's writing in...
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  • critic, Elaine Showalter who shortly afterwards strongly advocated for, and wrote about, lad lit as a critical term (see lad lit) Could Showalter actually...
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