[单项选择]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 se
A. To forge a new theory of literary criticism.
B. To pursue truth in a disinterested manner.
C. To demonstrate that women are interested in literary criticism that can be viewed either subjectively or objectively.
D. To convince the academic establishment to revise the ways in which it assesses women scholars’ professional qualities.