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Is the literary critic like the poet, responding creatively, intuitively, subjectively to the written word as the poet responds

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问题     Is the literary critic like the poet, responding creatively, intuitively, subjectively to the written word as the poet responds to human experience? Or is the critic more like a scientist, following a series of demonstrable, verifiable steps, using an objective method of analysis?
    For the woman who is a practitioner of feminist literary criticism, the subjectivity versus objectivity, or critic-as-artist-or-scientist, debate has special significance; for her, the question is not only academic, but political as well, and her definition will provoke special risks whichever side of the issue it favors. If she defines feminist criticism as objective and scientific—a valid, verifiable, intellectual method that anyone, whether man or woman, can perform—the definition not only makes the critic-as-artist approach impossible, but may also hinder accomplishment of the utilitarian political objectives of those who seek to change the academic establishment and its thinking, especially about sex roles. If she defines feminist criticism as creative and intuitive, privileged as art, then her work becomes vulnerable to the prejudices of stereotypic ideas about the ways in which women think, and will be dismissed by much of the academic establishment. Because of these prejudices, women who use an intuitive approach in their criticism may find themselves charged with inability to be analytical, to be objective, or to think critically. Whereas men may be free to claim the role of critic-as-artist, women run different professional risks when they choose intuition and private experience as critical method and defense.
    These questions are political in the sense that the debate over them will inevitably be less an exploration of abstract matters in a spirit of disinterested inquiry than an academic power struggle, in which the careers and professional fortunes of many women scholars only now entering the academic profession in substantial numbers will be at stake, and with them the chances for a distinctive contribution to humanistic understanding, a contribution that might be an important influence against sexism in our society.
    As long as the academic establishment continues to regard objective analysis as "masculine" and an intuitive approach as "feminine", the theoretician must steer a delicate philosophical course between the two. If she wishes to construct a theory of feminist criticism, she would be well advised to place it within the framework of a general theory of the critical process that is neither purely objective nor purely intuitive. Her theory is then more likely to be compared and contrasted with other theories of criticism with some degree of dispassionate distance.
选项 A、How Theories of Literary Criticism Can Best Be Used
B、Problems Confronting Women Who Are Feminist Literary Critics
C、A Historical Overview of Feminist Literary Criticism
D、Literary Criticism: Art or Science
答案B
解析 全文主旨题。本题问：下面哪一个标题最好地总结了本文的内容?第2段第1句基本反映了全文的主旨："对于从事女权主义文学评论的妇女来说，这场关于主观性和客观性，评论家作为艺术家还是作为科学家的争论有其特殊的意义。对于女权主义的文学评论家来说，问题不仅是学术性的，而且还是政治性的"。接着文章环绕这个主题展开。
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