Read the given text and answer the question that follows.
“The emancipation of women,” James Joyce told one of his friends, “has caused the greatest revolution in our time in the most important relationship there is – that between men and women. “Other Modernists agreed: Virginia Woolf, claiming that in about 1910 “human character changed,” and, illustrating the new balance between the sexes, urged, “read the ‘Agamemnon’ and see whether your sympathies are not almost entirely with Clytemnestra.” D. H. Lawrence wrote, “perhaps the deepest fight for 2000 years and more has been the fight for women’s independence.”
But if modernist writers considered women’s revolt against men’s domination one of their “greatest” and “deepest” themes, only recently, in perhaps the past fifteen years, has literary criticism begun to catch up with it. Now that the images of sexual antagonism abound in modern literature have gone unremarked; far from it.
But what we are able to see in literary works depends on the perspectives’ we bring to them, and now that women, enough to make a difference, are reforming canons and interpreting literature, the landscapes of literary history and the features of individual books have begun to change.
According to the passage, women are changing literary criticism by:
Noting instances of hostility between men and women
Seeing literature from fresh points of view
Studying the works of early twentieth-century writers
Reviewing books written by feminists
Resisting masculine influence
Read the given text and answer the question that follows.
“The emancipation of women,” James Joyce told one of his friends, “has caused the greatest revolution in our time in the most important relationship there is – that between men and women. “Other Modernists agreed: Virginia Woolf, claiming that in about 1910 “human character changed,” and, illustrating the new balance between the sexes, urged, “read the ‘Agamemnon’ and see whether your sympathies are not almost entirely with Clytemnestra.” D. H. Lawrence wrote, “perhaps the deepest fight for 2000 years and more has been the fight for women’s independence.”
But if modernist writers considered women’s revolt against men’s domination one of their “greatest” and “deepest” themes, only recently, in perhaps the past fifteen years, has literary criticism begun to catch up with it. Now that the images of sexual antagonism abound in modern literature have gone unremarked; far from it.
But what we are able to see in literary works depends on the perspectives’ we bring to them, and now that women, enough to make a difference, are reforming canons and interpreting literature, the landscapes of literary history and the features of individual books have begun to change.
The author quotes James Joyce, Virginia Wolfe and D. H. Lawrence primarily in order to show that:
These were feminist writers
Although well-meaning, they were ineffectual
Before the twentieth-century there was little interest in women’s literature
Modern literature is dependent on the women’s movement
The interest in feminist issues is not new
Read the given text and answer the question that follows.
“The emancipation of women,” James Joyce told one of his friends, “has caused the greatest revolution in our time in the most important relationship there is – that between men and women. “Other Modernists agreed: Virginia Woolf, claiming that in about 1910 “human character changed,” and, illustrating the new balance between the sexes, urged, “read the ‘Agamemnon’ and see whether your sympathies are not almost entirely with Clytemnestra.” D. H. Lawrence wrote, “perhaps the deepest fight for 2000 years and more has been the fight for women’s independence.”
But if modernist writers considered women’s revolt against men’s domination one of their “greatest” and “deepest” themes, only recently, in perhaps the past fifteen years, has literary criticism begun to catch up with it. Now that the images of sexual antagonism abound in modern literature have gone unremarked; far from it.
But what we are able to see in literary works depends on the perspectives’ we bring to them, and now that women, enough to make a difference, are reforming canons and interpreting literature, the landscapes of literary history and the features of individual books have begun to change.
The author’s attitude towards women’s emancipation can best be described as one of:
Ambivalence
Fervor
Detachment
Endorsement
Reservation
Read the given text and answer the question that follows.
“The emancipation of women,” James Joyce told one of his friends, “has caused the greatest revolution in our time in the most important relationship there is – that between men and women. “Other Modernists agreed: Virginia Woolf, claiming that in about 1910 “human character changed,” and, illustrating the new balance between the sexes, urged, “read the ‘Agamemnon’ and see whether your sympathies are not almost entirely with Clytemnestra.” D. H. Lawrence wrote, “perhaps the deepest fight for 2000 years and more has been the fight for women’s independence.”
But if modernist writers considered women’s revolt against men’s domination one of their “greatest” and “deepest” themes, only recently, in perhaps the past fifteen years, has literary criticism begun to catch up with it. Now that the images of sexual antagonism abound in modern literature have gone unremarked; far from it.
But what we are able to see in literary works depends on the perspectives’ we bring to them, and now that women, enough to make a difference, are reforming canons and interpreting literature, the landscapes of literary history and the features of individual books have begun to change.
Which of the following titles best describe the content of the passage?
Modernist writers and the search for equality
The meaning of literary works
Towards a new criticism
Women in literature, from1910 on
Transforming literature
The question of women’s rights and her sphere had been agitating the minds of men for a long time. Tennyson expressed his views on it in:
The Princess
Maud
Tears Idle Tears
Sweet and Low
None of the above
On the death of Wordsworth which female writer was recommended for the Poet Laureateship?
Barrett Browning
Virginia Woolf
Anne Radcliff
George Eliot
Mrs. Gaskell
Which female writer has been a major influence on women writers, and her works have been the focus of numerous feminist critiques?
Jane Austen
Anna Seward
George Eliot
Mrs. Gaskell
Virginia Woolf
Which female writer was reassessed by recent feminist critics for her portrayal of ‘marginalized women’?
Anne Bronte
Mrs. Gaskell
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Virginia Woolf
Strong feminist tendencies have earned her the name “A Hyena in Petticoats”. Who is she?
Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen
Ann Radcliff
Mary Wollstonecraft
None of the above
What is true about the feminist writer Virginia Woolf in the list given?
She was the daughter of Leslie Stephens
She was concerned with the rights of women, especially women writers.
Her house was the centre of Bloomsbury group of intellectuals
She killed herself by drowning
All of the above