Gender, I-deology: Essays on Theory, Fiction and FilmChantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, José Angel García Landa De essays in deze bundel behandelen onder meer de representatie van sekse en sekserollen, de invloed van feministische kritiek, en het genderaspect in de (post)moderne tijd, zoals voorkomt in Britse en Amerikaanse literaire werken en films. In deel I en II (Theory en Fiction) aandacht voor o.a: Kristeva's Desire in language, Echo door Violet Trefusis, The magic toyshop door Angela Carter, Dystopia door Margaret Atwood, The passion en Sexing the cherry door Jeanette Winterson. In deel III (Film) o.a. aandacht voor Marlène Dietrich; de volgende films komen aan de orde: The big heat van Fritz Lang, South Pacific, Rear window van Alfred Hitchcock, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The purple rose of Cairo, When Harry met Sally, Switch van Blake Edwards, The silence of the lambs van Thomas Harris. |
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... discourse , the connection between it and ' woman ' is trans - discursive , i.e. it is maintained by all the discourses which presently constitute the dominant symbolic order in the West " ( Silverman 1984 : 325 ; italics added ) . is ...
... discourse , the connection between it and ' woman ' is trans - discursive , i.e. it is maintained by all the discourses which presently constitute the dominant symbolic order in the West " ( Silverman 1984 : 325 ; italics added ) . is ...
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... discourse and significant social practices.4 Gender style . We can use the concept of gender style as a further specification of roles : style is the way each person manipulates his or her generic image through individual and ...
... discourse and significant social practices.4 Gender style . We can use the concept of gender style as a further specification of roles : style is the way each person manipulates his or her generic image through individual and ...
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... . Essentialism may appear as a weapon of confrontation even in supposedly anti - essentialist discourses , e . g . in the following theories of gender ( Beauvoir 1949 : 1.75 ; Ruthven 20 Gender , I - deology and Addictive Representation.
... . Essentialism may appear as a weapon of confrontation even in supposedly anti - essentialist discourses , e . g . in the following theories of gender ( Beauvoir 1949 : 1.75 ; Ruthven 20 Gender , I - deology and Addictive Representation.
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... discourses about sexuality are an instrument of power and help constitute the reality they are supposed to simply describe . Constructivist philosophies tend to be more self - conscious about their political role than versions of ...
... discourses about sexuality are an instrument of power and help constitute the reality they are supposed to simply describe . Constructivist philosophies tend to be more self - conscious about their political role than versions of ...
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... in bringing out these repressed discourses and voicing them . Feminist criti- 21 Lacan , quoted in Beauvoir 1949 : 2.15 . cism started as a study of representations . And this 30 Gender , I - deology and Addictive Representation.
... in bringing out these repressed discourses and voicing them . Feminist criti- 21 Lacan , quoted in Beauvoir 1949 : 2.15 . cism started as a study of representations . And this 30 Gender , I - deology and Addictive Representation.
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Page 30 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 89 - Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Page 244 - So I never could tell where you Put your foot, your root, I never could talk to you. The tongue stuck in my jaw. It stuck in a barb wire snare. Ich, ich, ich, ich, I could hardly speak.
Page 141 - It gives me wonder great as my content, To see you here before me. O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd...
Page 155 - As if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. It was the work of the rushing gust— but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the Lady Madeline of Usher. There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame.
Page 156 - Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.
Page 98 - The meaning of a representation can be nothing but a representation. In fact, it is nothing but the representation itself conceived as stripped of irrelevant clothing. But this clothing can never be completely stripped off; it is only changed for something more diaphanous. So there is an infinite regression here.
Page 141 - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 8 - When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world...
Page 153 - In halls such as these, in a bridal chamber such as this, I passed with the Lady of Tremaine the unhallowed hours of the first month of our marriage, passed them with but little disquietude. That my wife dreaded the fierce moodiness of my temper, that she shunned me, and loved me but little, I could not help perceiving, but it gave me rather pleasure than otherwise.