Destruction And Reconstruction - Feminist Literary Criticism

Feminism literary criticism is a kind of literaiy criticism theory that is wornan-centered,open and deconstrutive,which sprang up in sixties of 20th century.It is the fruit of feminist movement permeating through literary and cultural area in the west.Through tracing to the source of western feminism literary criticism and sorting out its basic conceptions,the thesis further discusses how this literary criticism clears gender policy of man-centered system and builds women's theory in the course of establishing women aesthetics and express difference,it also makes an influence study and expounds the emerging and developing of feminism literary criticism in China. Western feminism literary criticism is rooted in feminist movement.Therofore,it has an intense political color.Influenced by Marxism, Deconstruction, Herrneneutik,Aesthetics of Reception ,its theoretic source is complicated,rnainly carrying on therories of two feminist pioneer,Virginia Woolf and Simole Beauvair,and presenting plural features. Western feminism literary criticism theory is represented by three schools of France,America,and England centering on women and language,feminism literary critism of France attempts to overturn the man-centered and subverts rnen-lentered language outlook that oppresses women in a radical rnanner.Therefore three famous feminism literary criticist,Julia Kristeve,Helena Cixcous,and Lucy Zrigarag set up women writingYgenealogy of woman arler femmeand emiotics espeltively to establish subject in language. But their common failing is to emphasize women's physiology and language excessi sively,which in fact is the evasion of political practice and has evident Utopian color - The third part of the thesis emphatically discusses that women feminism literary criti ci sin of France subverts traditional man -centered consciousness,recreates women's characters in text and expresses women's consciousnes,and rebuilds feminism literary tradition,due to that feminism literary criticism of England combines,femini sm literan criticism of France and marxism literary criticism theory. Western feminism literary criticism also affects China.China sdifferentconditions from west decides that feminism literamy criticism of China can't completely copy western theoretical model.Lock of backgroudof femalisim movement cant't negate the existing of Fenialisin in China.With the decpening of reformation and openness in China ,with the weakening of woen's conscious of Chinese women and the widening of their out look and the emancipating of their mental idea,feminism literary criticism in China has a higher starting point. From emerging to developing,feminism literary criticism in China presents two trends :One is to emphasis combining feminism thoughts and realistic cnticismn principle to form the main wave of realistic feminism literary criticism in eighiies.The other is the all-round unfolding of feminism literary criticism since nineties. Feminism literary critics draw lessons from western plural literary theory to give texts,language,literary tradition cornpletly new explanation from women's angle,and surveys Chinese literary writing applying western feminism literary Criticism theory,which enables Chinese feminism literary criticism to grow vigorously.Recenty,the springing up of women's literture provid...