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Feminist Criticism - Poetry (Critical Survey of Poetry)

Introduction

Any survey of feminist criticism is fraught with difficulties, the most serious of which is the avoidance of reductionism. This introduction to feminist work attempts to identify key figures, central concerns, and general “movements.” Such an attempt is a strategic move to organize a vital and growing body of work into some sort of scheme that can be collated and presented. Despite the existence of American, French, and British “feminisms,” for example, no such clear-cut schools or movements exist in a fixed way. The various writers included in this essay,...

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