Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed CommunityState University of New York Press, 8 juil. 1988 - 224 pages Feminist Dialogics examines the structure of four novels (Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, James's The Golden Bowl, Wharton's The House of Mirth and Chopin's The Awakening) through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical framework. The author draws on Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia to show how the interaction of many voices forms the social community of the novel and how the functioning of these voices makes clear statements about the position and fate of women in these specific societies. The novels present dialogic situations in which the women misinterpret their social texts and, therefore, fail to understand their own social power. The four works considered in this study represent the struggle for women's construction of self within a dialogic structure of many competing voices. Bauer introduces and enters into dialogue with other theorists who are concerned with the social implications of reading and interpretation, including Rene Girard, Wolfgang Iser, Sandra Gilbert, and Susan Gubar, as well as other American feminists. The recurring theme in the novels of this study is the exclusion and rivalry of discourse: the competition among characters for authoritative and interpretive power. Each voice in the novel is a thematization of an ideological perspective and, as such, competes for domination. The conspiracy of voices to exclude the female reflects the social reality as well. This work is an important contribution to literary criticism and feminist theory. |
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... culture , in fact , functions to reduce experience ( here , women's experience in culture ) to ix Preface: A Theory of Feminist Dialogics.
... culture , in fact , functions to reduce experience ( here , women's experience in culture ) to ix Preface: A Theory of Feminist Dialogics.
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... culture ) to some man- ageable minimum , to erase heterogeneity and Otherness . What perhaps counters this erasure is the dialogue which reaffirms these women as speaking subjects . Wharton's pronouncement upon these women is that they ...
... culture ) to some man- ageable minimum , to erase heterogeneity and Otherness . What perhaps counters this erasure is the dialogue which reaffirms these women as speaking subjects . Wharton's pronouncement upon these women is that they ...
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... culture is that within which the self originally constitutes itself , it is always already there in each subject as subject . Thus how can it be over- thrown if it has been necessarily internalized in everybody who could possibly act to ...
... culture is that within which the self originally constitutes itself , it is always already there in each subject as subject . Thus how can it be over- thrown if it has been necessarily internalized in everybody who could possibly act to ...
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... culture . She cannot choose against herself to be a " mother - woman " : she cannot choose repression . Instead , she forces herself into a subversive dialogue with the Creole culture . Edna hears the sea's voice , which promises her a ...
... culture . She cannot choose against herself to be a " mother - woman " : she cannot choose repression . Instead , she forces herself into a subversive dialogue with the Creole culture . Edna hears the sea's voice , which promises her a ...
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... culture is the presence of an insistent feminist voice ( and I use the terms presence and voice advisedly ) , theories of post- modernism have tended either to neglect or to repress that voice . The absence of discussions of sexual ...
... culture is the presence of an insistent feminist voice ( and I use the terms presence and voice advisedly ) , theories of post- modernism have tended either to neglect or to repress that voice . The absence of discussions of sexual ...
Table des matières
A Counterfeit Aracadia | 17 |
Reading Coverdales Romance | 24 |
Coverdale and Surveillance | 31 |
Zenobias Carnival | 38 |
Zenobias Muscular Feminism | 44 |
A Matter of Interpretation | 51 |
The Failure of the Republic | 89 |
Kate Chopins The Awakening | 129 |
Resisting Tradition | 140 |
Reading Motherhood | 152 |
Postscript | 159 |
55 | 200 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Adam Adam's Adèle alienation ambivalence American Amerigo argues articulate authoritative Awakening Bakhtin becomes Bertha Blithedale Blithedale Romance carnival characters Charlotte Chopin claims codes consciousness conventions Coverdale Coverdale's Creole Criticism culture desire discourse dominant Edith Wharton Edna Edna's Emerson exchange father female feminine feminist dialogics fiction force freedom gaze gender Golden Bowl gossip Hawthorne Hawthorne's Henry James heteroglossia Hollingsworth House of Mirth husband ideology imagination impulses individual inner speech internally persuasive interpretive interpretive community James's Judith Fetterley Léonce Lily Bart Lily's Luce Irigaray Maggie Maggie's male marriage masquerade Mikhail Bakhtin monologic mother motherhood narrative norms notion novel patriarchal Patricia Meyer Spacks Prince Priscilla reader relation represents republic resistance reveals ritual role romantic Rosedale sacrifice Selden sense sentimental sexual silence society speak struggle suggests suicide symbolic Terry Castle Trenor University Press Ververs violence voice Wharton woman women York Zenobia