Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western CultureLeslie C. Dunn, Nancy A. Jones As a material link between body and culture, self and other, the voice has been endlessly fascinating to artists and critics. Yet it is the voices of women that have inspired the greatest fascination, as well as the deepest ambivalence, because the female voice signifies sexual otherness as well as sexual and cultural power. This book explores cultural manifestations of female vocality in the light of current theories of subjectivity, the body and sexual difference. The fourteen essays collected here examine a wide spectrum of discourses, including myth, literature, music, film, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Though diverse in their critical approaches, the essays are united in their attempt to articulate the compelling yet problematic intersections of gender, voice, and embodiment as they have shaped the textual representation of women and women's self-expression in performance. |
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... writer can profitably draw in a period privileging impersonal or objective styles of narration . She has also published Family Plots : Balzac's Narrative Generations ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1986 ) . Leslie C. Dunn is ...
... writer can profitably draw in a period privileging impersonal or objective styles of narration . She has also published Family Plots : Balzac's Narrative Generations ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1986 ) . Leslie C. Dunn is ...
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... writing a book on women , embroidery , and romance in thirteenth - century France . Amy Lawrence is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire . She is the author of Echo and Narcissus : Women's ...
... writing a book on women , embroidery , and romance in thirteenth - century France . Amy Lawrence is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire . She is the author of Echo and Narcissus : Women's ...
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... writing with Susan J. Leonardi on fictional and historical divas ( To Have a Voice : The Politics of the Diva , New Brunswick , NJ : Rutgers University Press , forthcoming ) . Charles Segal is Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard ...
... writing with Susan J. Leonardi on fictional and historical divas ( To Have a Voice : The Politics of the Diva , New Brunswick , NJ : Rutgers University Press , forthcoming ) . Charles Segal is Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard ...
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... writing ( " having a voice " ) or to the specific qualities of their literary and cultural self - expression ( " in a different voice " ) . 1 This metaphor has become so pervasive , so intrinsic to feminist discourse that it makes us ...
... writing ( " having a voice " ) or to the specific qualities of their literary and cultural self - expression ( " in a different voice " ) . 1 This metaphor has become so pervasive , so intrinsic to feminist discourse that it makes us ...
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... writing about the representation of women singers in nineteenth - century opera , has called " the undoing of women ... writers and artists have begun to refigure the relationship between gender and vocality . The idealized figure 5 Gal ...
... writing about the representation of women singers in nineteenth - century opera , has called " the undoing of women ... writers and artists have begun to refigure the relationship between gender and vocality . The idealized figure 5 Gal ...
Contents
The Gorgon and the nightingale the voice of female lament and Pindars Twelfth Pythian Ode | 17 |
Music and the maternal voice in Purgatorio XIX | 35 |
Ophelias songs in Hamlet music madness and the feminine | 50 |
Wordsworth and Romantic voice the poets song and the prostitutes cry | 65 |
Anxieties of audition | 81 |
No women are indeed the boy actor as vocal seductress in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century English drama | 83 |
Deriding the voice of Jeanette MacDonald notes on psychoanalysis and the American film musical | 103 |
Adorno and the Sirens telephonographic bodies | 120 |
Rewriting Ophelia fluidity madness and voice in Louise Colets La Servante | 152 |
Staring the camera down direct address and womens voices | 166 |
The voice of lament female vocality and performative efficacy in the FinnishKarelian itkuvirsi | 179 |
I | 195 |
The lyrical dimensions of spirituality music voice and language in the novels of Toni Morrison | 197 |
Red hot mamas Bessie Smith Sophie Tucker and the ethnic maternal voice in American popular song | 212 |
Maternalism and the material girl | 230 |
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Women artists vocality and cultural authority | 137 |
The diva doesnt die George Eliots Armgart | 139 |
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