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问题         Feminist critics have long debated the extent to which gender plays a role
    in the creation and interpretation of texts. Androgynist poetics, rooted in mid-
    Victorian women’s writing, contends that the creative mind is sexless, but
    from the 1970s on, many feminist critics rejected the idea of the genderless
(5)  mind, finding that the imagination cannot evade conscious or unconscious
    structures of gender which is part of culture-determination where separating
    imagination from the self is impossible.
        The Female Aesthetic,  expressing a unique female consciousness in
    literature, spoke of the "female vernacular, the Mother Tongue, a powerful but
(10) neglected women’s culture." Virginia Woolf discusses how a woman writer
    seeks within herself "the pools, the depths, the dark places where the largest
    fish slumber," inevitably colliding against her own sexuality to Confront
    "something about the body, about the passions." Accessible to men and women
    alike, but representing female sexual morphology, this method sought a way of
(15) writing  which  literally  embodied  the  female,  thereby  fighting  the
    subordinating, linear style of classification or distinction.
        It must be admitted that there are problems with the Female Aesthetic that
    feminist critics themselves recognized. For instance, they avoided defining
    exactly what constituted their writing style, as any definition would then
(20) categorize it and safely subsume it as a genre under the linear patriarchal
    structure—its very restlessness and ambiguity defied identification as part of its
    identity.  Some feminists and women writers could feel excluded by the
    surreality of the Female Aesthetic and its stress on the biological forms of
    female experience, which also bear close resemblance to essentialism. Men may
(25) try their hand at writing woman’s bodies, but according to the feminist
    critique, only. a woman whose very biology gave her an edge could read these
    texts successfully—a position which, worst of all, risked marginalization of
    women’s literature and theory.
        Later, Gynocritics attempted to resolve some of these problems, by
(30) agreeing that women’s literature lay as the central concern for feminist
    criticism but rejecting the concept of an essential female identity and style,
    while simultaneously seeking to revise Freudian structures by emphasizing a
    Pre-Oedipal phase wherein the daughter’s bond to her mother inscribes the key
    factor in gender identity. Matriarchal values dissolve intergenerational conflicts
(35) and build upon a female tradition of literature rather than the struggle of
    Oedipus and Lais at the crossroads.  Lastly and most promising in its
    achievement of a delicate balance are developments of an over-arching gender
    theory, which considers gender, both male and female, as a social construction
    built on biological differences. Gender theory proposes to explore ideological
(40) inscription and the literary effects of the sex/gender system, opening up the
    literary theory stage and bringing in questions of masculinity into feminist
    theory. Taking gender as a fundamental analytic category brings feminist
    criticism from the margin to the center, though it risks depoliticizing the study
    of women.
选项 A、A Historical Overview of Feminist Literary Criticism
B、Oedipus and Lais：The Struggle between Masculine and Feminine Texts
C、The Precarious Feminist Compromise in Politics and Art
D、A New Theory of Literary Criticism
E、Establishing New Feminist Concepts of Gender
答案 A
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