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Feminist Literary Criticism, Arising in Conjunction With Sociopolitical Feminism

The document discusses feminist literary criticism and reader-response criticism. Feminist criticism examines how works reflect patriarchal ideologies and constructions of gender, tracing how masculinity and femininity are portrayed and how they are positioned within works. The story discussed shows women as meek and inferior to men, who are depicted as rational. However, it breaks from portraying men rationally and women emotionally. Reader-response criticism focuses on the audience's experience of a literary work rather than the author or content. The story discussed portrays men as easily falling in and out of love, while the protagonist Alfredo's confusion and weakness in changing his engagement shows innate human flaws.

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Feminist Literary Criticism, Arising in Conjunction With Sociopolitical Feminism

The document discusses feminist literary criticism and reader-response criticism. Feminist criticism examines how works reflect patriarchal ideologies and constructions of gender, tracing how masculinity and femininity are portrayed and how they are positioned within works. The story discussed shows women as meek and inferior to men, who are depicted as rational. However, it breaks from portraying men rationally and women emotionally. Reader-response criticism focuses on the audience's experience of a literary work rather than the author or content. The story discussed portrays men as easily falling in and out of love, while the protagonist Alfredo's confusion and weakness in changing his engagement shows innate human flaws.

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Feminist literary criticism, arising in conjunction with sociopolitical feminism,

critiques patriarchal language and literature by exposing how these reflect


masculine ideology. It examines gender politics in works and traces the subtle
construction of masculinity and femininity, and their relative status,
positioning’s, and marginalization’s within works.

            In this story Women represents as meek and considers men to be


superior. They are faithful and easy to fall in love while men are rational and
uncertain. The story broke the notion of patriarchal system as the society sees
men as rational type or in line with logic while women are the emotional kind.

Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the


reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to
other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the
content and form of the work.

            In the story dead stars, men are easy to fell out love and easy to fall in
love. The protagonist, Alfredo is uncertain by his decisions in his life. He was
engaged to Esperanza, his fiancée of four years. But for some reasons,
apparently on Alfredo’s part, a change of heart has taken place. He has fallen
for Julia Salas, the sister-in-law of the judge whom his father had a meeting
with. His confusion, weakness and unreasonableness are innate flaws of
humans. Alfredo sees something different to Julia Salas that Esperanza don’t
have and I find it very egotistical for him that he differentiate the two women.
He sees women as second choice of his dreams when it is fade.

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