Literature and Society

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SOUTH EASTERN KENYA UNIVERSITY MACHAKOS CAMPUS. SCHOOL: EDUCATION DEGREE: B.ED (ARTS) PROGRAMME: INSTITUTION BASED SESSION: APRIL 2014 COURSE TITLE: LITERATURE AND SOCIETY COURSE CODE: TLT 201 LECTURER: MR. PATRICK KYUNGUTI ASSIGNMENT: Discuss the main Tenets of Feminism literary criticism, and its applicability in literary study. PRESENTED BY: MUSILI JOSPHAT KYALO E35/MAC – IB/11405/2013 Introduction This paper focuses on the discussion of the main tenets of feminist’s literary criticism from perspectives of the postmodern approach. The term tenet refers to the beliefs, values and principles, which in the context of this paper implies the factors that form the core values and principles of women literary criticism. Literary criticism is associated with the empirical study, evaluation and interpretation of literature and the contemporary literary criticism is informed by literary theory (Cuddon & Habib, 2013). Literary theory is defined as the body of ideas and methods that are practically applicable in reading of literature. This theory is associated with the description of underlying principles which are used as a tool for understanding literature. Literary theory has been used a tool for realization and understanding literary criticism (Culler, 2007). In a way the study of literatures requires one to have knowledge of contexts as well as of texts. It can be argued that literary has been considered as the application of theory. Given that literature is intimately linked to society, its themes tend to emerge from activities, situations and contexts of various groups, which in the context of this paper are about feminist’s literary criticism (Kennedy, & Litz, (Eds, 2000). It can be argued that literary
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