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    Elaine showalter: feminist criticism can be divided into two distinct varieties. The first type is concerned with woman as reader - with woman as consumer of male-produced literature. Feminist critique is a historically grounded inquiry which aims to awaken us to the significance of its sexual codes.

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    Elaine showalter: feminist criticism can be divided into two distinct varieties. The first type is concerned with woman as reader - with woman as consumer of male-produced literature. Feminist critique is a historically grounded inquiry which aims to awaken us to the significance of its sexual codes.

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    TOWARDS A FEMINIST POETICS ELAINE SHOWALTER Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with

    men. Joseph Conrad Feminist criticism can be divided into two distinct varieties. The first type is concerned with woman as reader with woman as the consumer of male-produced literature, and with the way in which the hypothesis of a female reader changes our apprehension of a given text, awakening us to the significance of its sexual codes. I shall call this kind of analysis the feminist critique, and like other kinds of critique it is a historically grounded inquiry which probes

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