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Title: Rossetti - Critics Flashcards
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 1 (Drama and Poetry pre-1900) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Rossetti's poetry. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Men & Patriarchal Society, Love & Sex, Morality & Victorian Values, Women, Power, Secrecy & Deceit, and Rossetti as a Writer. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick! Combine with my Rossetti context flashcards for easy, comprehensive revision.
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 1 (Drama and Poetry pre-1900) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Rossetti's poetry. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Men & Patriarchal Society, Love & Sex, Morality & Victorian Values, Women, Power, Secrecy & Deceit, and Rossetti as a Writer. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick! Combine with my Rossetti context flashcards for easy, comprehensive revision.
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Men & Patriarchal Society
“men hurt while women redeem” (‘Goblin Market’) Gilbert and Gubar
“hint that male gender oppression be interpreted as
original sin” (‘Goblin Market’) - Gilbert and Gubar
“clear critique of dominant masculinity” (‘Maude
Claire’) - Avery
“(The men are all) absent, weak or threatening” Gilbert and Gubar
“dying to defend his wife and sacrificing himself rather than be beaten” (‘Round Tower at Jhansi’)
- Unsworth
“(Rossetti) challenges the patriarchal perception of
women” - Scholl
“focus is not on the possibility of fulfilling earthly
love
...
designed to convey the need for an alternative social order” (‘Goblin Market’) - McGann
“'Goblin Market' functions as a feminist text
through its acknowledgement of female sexuality
and desire” - Scholl
Rossetti critics
Love & Sex
Rossetti critics
Morality & Victorian
Values
“an allegory of sexual transgression” (‘Goblin
Market’) - Morden
“explore what she saw as the great danger that
the Victorian cult of marriage posed to the
souls of women” - Flowers
“at times she used the Biblical idea of woman's
subordination to man as reason for
maintaining the status quo” - Avery
“Rossetti has radically rewritten the Fall of Eve in
terms of the social and spiritual abuse of
women” (‘Goblin Market’) - Palazzo
“in a patriarchal culture, woman inevitably
experiences herself as object and other” - Gilbert
and Gubar (describing de Beauvoir’s views)
“genius and sexuality are diseases in
women” (‘Goblin Market’) - Gilbert and Gubar
“female figure is depicted as entrapped or confined
- physically, psychologically or both” - Avery
“women suffered oppression and alienation and
exclusion from key systems of power” - Avery
Rossetti critics
Women
Rossetti critics
Secrecy & Deceit
“the only thing they could call their own was a
secret” (‘Winter, My Secret’) - Mold
Rossetti critics
“the mask/veil is often a form of protection” ('Winter, My Secret') - Skoczek
“the speaker denies entry to the
reader” (‘Winter, My Secret’) - Avery
“speaker asserts the right to say 'no'
Title: Rossetti - Critics Flashcards
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 1 (Drama and Poetry pre-1900) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Rossetti's poetry. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Men & Patriarchal Society, Love & Sex, Morality & Victorian Values, Women, Power, Secrecy & Deceit, and Rossetti as a Writer. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick! Combine with my Rossetti context flashcards for easy, comprehensive revision.
Description: Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 1 (Drama and Poetry pre-1900) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Rossetti's poetry. All of the critics you need to gain maximum marks for AO5 (different interpretations), organised by theme. Themes covered are: Men & Patriarchal Society, Love & Sex, Morality & Victorian Values, Women, Power, Secrecy & Deceit, and Rossetti as a Writer. Very easy to assemble; simply print, fold and prit stick! Combine with my Rossetti context flashcards for easy, comprehensive revision.