The object is to provide a critique of phallocentric assumptions and an analysis of patriarchal visions or ideologies inscribed in a literature that is male-centered and male-dominated. ... According to Elaine Showalter (in 20th Century Literary Theory, p. 216 - 220)3, gynocriticism is concerned with "woman as the producer of textual meaning, with the history, themes, genres, and structures of literature by women. ... Critical Strategies Feminist Criticism functions to facilitate the awakening of human consciousness to the gender-delimiting elements of human experience that are often dramatiz...

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Feminism took full force during the twentieth century through the use of film, music, and especially literature. ... "Katniss' character is represented as possessing masculine and feminine characteristics; her female body marks her as a woman with elements of emphasized femininity while her actions encompass elements of hegemonic masculinity" (Woloshyn, Lane, Vol.1, 152). ...

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In drawing on the motif of homoeroticism, As You Like It is influenced by the pastoral tradition, which typically contains elements of same-sex love. In the Forest of Arden, as in pastoral literature, homoerotic relationships are not necessarily antithetical to heterosexual couplings, as modern theorists like Butler might tend to assume. ...

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