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"The emancipation of women", James Joyce told one of his friends, "has caused the greatest revolution in our time." Other modernists agree: Virginia Woolf, claiming that in about 1910 "human character changed" and illustrating the new balance between the sexes, urged, "Read the 'Agamemon' and see whether your sympathies are not almost entirely with Clytemnestra". D.H Lawrence wrote "perhaps the deepest fight for 200 years and more has been the fight for women's independence". But if modernist writers considered women's revolt against men's domination as one of their "greatest' and "deepest" themes, only recently, perhaps in the past 15 years has literary criticism begun to catch up with it. Not that the images of sexual antagonism that abound in modern literature have gone unremarked far from it. We are able to see in literary works the perspective we bring to them and now that women are enough to make a difference in reforming canons ans interpreting literature, the landscapes of literary history and the features of individual books have begun to change.

Question 178

The author quotes James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and D.H. Lawrence primarily in order to show that

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